Quiz Bowl Difficult questions from Wordlethon December 2023

This first Attorney General presented the Virginia Plan drafted by Madison.

In Tennesse Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, Stanley Kowalski yells this girl's name

He was the longest serving Chief Justice who helped decide Marbury v. Madison

This goddess gave Hippomenes golden apples to woo Atalanta

The death of this adopted son of his great-uncle Claudius began the year of Four Emperors

Fulgencio Batista's government was overthrown by this revolutionary who established the Communist Party in Cuba.

This man wrote the Divine Comedy

The Hoover Dam on this river forms Lake Mead

This organ produces albumin, a component of blood serum

During Rangarōk, who rips the jaws off of a giant wolf?

Essay that argues that a larger republic protects against factions better than a small republic.

This philosopher wrote of prisoners whose only reality is the shadows displayed on a cave's walls.

This "father of the symphony" also wrote 68 string quartets including "Sunrise" and "Emperor"

This president said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."

This Texas Governor was wounded in Dealey Plaza when President Kennedy was assassinated.

Who designed the Disney Concert Hall

What president hosted the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Isreal but couldn't free the Iranian hostages?

In this Picasso painting, the woman in the upper right corner raises her hand in the shape of airplanes

He fought Crassus in the Third Servile War

He is the father of the Constitution

The first use of this scale that measures wind was on the HMS Beagle

The Monkey King, Sun Wukong, is born from stone in this one of the Four Classics

During his presidency, the US fought the Quasi War with France

He wrote Das Kapital and co-wrote the Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels