Pranav Sivakumar is an American speller and amateur researcher.
 In 2013, he finished 2nd in the 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee, finished 2nd in the Illinois State Geography Bee, and was named a Siemens Competition National Semifinalist, making him the only person to achieve all these feats in a span of one year.
 His National Spelling Bee achievements earned him recognition by Pat Quinn, who declared June 8, 2014 "Pranav Sivakumar Day."
 In 2014 he was admitted as a student at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, where he currently attends as a senior.
 He was the first person to be a Google Science Fair Global Finalist twice and won the Virgin Galactic Pioneer Award in 2015.
 Pranav was mentioned in President Barack Obama's speech at the White House Astronomy Night.
 Most recently, Sivakumar was named the $20,000 individual winner of the 2016 Siemens Competition National Finals.
The South Asian Spelling Bee is an annual spelling bee platform in the United States for children of South Asian descent.
 It is an annual contest tours the country each June and July in pursuit of the top two spellers from 12 cities nationwide.
 The competition is open to any student in the between the ages of 8 and 14, who has at least one parent or grandparent who is of South Asian descent, or whose lineage can be traced to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and/or Sri Lanka.
 Since its launch in 2008, the South Asian Spelling Bee has been aired in over 120 countries on Sony Entertainment Television Asia as a multi-part series.
Aliya Deri (born 1992) is an American college student and was the champion of the 2008 National Vocabulary Championship.
 She was also a runner up for the 78th Scripps National Spelling Bee at the age of 13.
 She was featured in the book "American Bee: The National Spelling Bee and the Culture of Word Nerds", ISBN  .
 Deri was initially homeschooled; then graduated from Amador Valley High School in 2009 and enrolled at Stanford University afterwards, majoring in computer science.
 She is currently pursuing a computer science PhD degree at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute.
The Postmedia Canspell National Spelling Bee, formerly called the Canwest Canspell National Spelling Bee, was a spelling bee held annually in Canada since 2005.
 The bee is affiliated with the United States-based Scripps National Spelling Bee and uses similar rules and word lists, adapted to best suit Canadian usage and spelling.
 It is organized by the Postmedia Network, though it was previously organized by now bankrupt Canwest Global Communications, parent company of 9 of the regional sponsors.
 Canwest Canspell ended in 2012.
The 18th Scripps National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, District of Columbia on May 26, 1942, by the E.W. Scripps Company.
 There was no National Spelling Bee after this competition until 1946 due to World War II.
Frank Louis Neuhauser (September 29, 1913 – March 11, 2011) was an American patent lawyer and spelling bee champion, who won the first National Spelling Bee in 1925 by successfully spelling the word "gladiolus."
 Today, the bee is known as the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
 He was 11 at the day of the spelling bee.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee (formerly the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee and commonly called the National Spelling Bee) is an annual spelling bee held in the United States.
 The bee is run on a not-for-profit basis by The E. W. Scripps Company and is held at a hotel or convention center in Washington, D.C. during the week following Memorial Day weekend.
 Since 2011, it has been held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center hotel in National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, just outside Washington D.C.
 It was previously held at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington D.C. from 1996 to 2010.
Veronica Penny is a Canadian Spelling Bee Regional Champion who has competed in spelling bees on the Regional level, the Provincial Level, the National Level, and in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
 In 2009, at age 10, Veronica placed 25th, and in 2010, she placed 17th.
 In 2011, she reached the Finals, placing 6th in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
 Veronica has a record of 10 Regional Spelling Bee titles.
 From 2008 to 2010, Veronica won 5 Hamilton Regional bees.
 In 2011 and 2012, Veronica won 5 Regional Championships in Ottawa.
 Veronica became Ontario Provincial Champion in 2010, representing Hamilton, Ontario.
 She won the Provincial Championship the next year in 2011, representing Ottawa in the Spelling Bee of Canada.
 Veronica was the Spelling Bee of Canada Intermediate champion for 2013.
The 19th Scripps National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, District of Columbia on May 24, 1946, sponsored by the E.W. Scripps Company.
 There had been no National Spelling Bee since 1942 due to World War II.
The 8th Annual Metlife South Asian Spelling Bee was held at Rutgers University on August 14, 2015.
 The bee visited 12 regional centers, including Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, New Jersey, New York City, and Washington D.C. Both the champion and runner-up from each center were invited to the National Finals.
 24 spellers participated in the finals.
 6th grader Shourav Dasari was the champion, while 12 year old Jairam Hathwar was the National runner-up.
 Both spellers have relations to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
 Dasari's sister, Shobha, had been in the annual bee's semifinals and tied for 22nd place, while Hathwar's brother, Sriram, was the champion of the 87th Scripps National Spelling Bee.
 Jairam himself tied for 22nd place at the 88th Scripps National Spelling Bee.
 He would go on to win the 89th Scripps National Spelling Bee, tying with 5th grade Texan Nihar Janga.
 This was the third time consecutive time that co-champions were declared.

Question: What was the word that Frank Louis Neuhauser spelled in order to win the competition commonly called the National Spelling Bee?
Answer: gladiolus