Wakatipu High School pupils (from left) Kieran Scerri and Jayde Ngata (both 13) and Aman Yadav (14) compare notes.
Dunstan High School pupil Caroline Harmsworth (14) is pleased with the answer.
Cromwell College pupils (from left) Cade Coughlin, Ethan Edmunds-Scott <<susbs correct>> and Morgan Bathgate (all 14) listen closely to the instructions.
Bridget Kirk, Izzy Logez and Ruby Neutze (all 13), from Wakatipu High School, wait for the next question.
Cromwell College pupils (from left) Alice Wood, Tyla Quaid and Annabel Campbell (all 13).
Marking the answers were (from left), Maree Smyth and Kay Stringer, both of Alexandra and Veronica Logez, of Queenstown.
Wakatipu High School pupils Juliet Mackay, Tessa Goldsmith and Laura Laurenson (all 13) hard at work in the dictionary skills round.
Mike Hepburn, of Cromwell College, reads out the next round of spelling words.
Dunstan High School pupils (from left), Charlotte Stringer, Stine-Lise Budge and NIck Pascoe, all 14, won the year 9 and 10 Central Otago competition.
At the Extra! spelling quiz held at Dunstan High School in Alexandra last night. Photos by Lynda van Kampen; prints available from otagoimages.co.nz.