Quiz Bowl 223-9 2023

Pikes Peak is in the

This instrument represents the duck in Peter and the Wolf

This person composed the opera William Tell

He was mortally wounded at Chancellorsville

This book is about an Oklahoma family going to California

He lamented that his degrees in philosophy, law, medecine, and theolgy have left him no wiser.

If a quadrilateral is both this and a kite, it is a rhombus

This Ibsen (did you get that right?) play focuses on Nora Helmer and here husband, Torovad

He made physically impossible staircases

This person wrote Peer Gynt

What country is the setting for Evita?

This play by Tennessee Williams includes the characters Tom Wingfield, Jim, and Laura

He led a coup in a beer hall

The 7 Commandments end up saying that some are more equal than others in this book

This is the brightest star in constellation Lyra

The Grapes of Wrath (did you get that right?) is by

US’s first attorney general

This activist wrote The Story of My Life

This instrument was played by Count Basie

This country was founded by the British as a colony for former slaves

This man was President of “Gran Colombia”

This man negociated the Oregon Treaty under James Polk