TASK DEFINITION: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
PROBLEM: Pieces within this opera include the trio "Zitti, zitti" and the aria "Una voce poco fa." One character in this opera pretends to be the student Lindoro in order to deceive Dr. Bartolo. The title character of this opera repeatedly sings the phrase "della citta" in one aria. That title character aids Count Almaviva in wooing Rosina and sings the aria "Largo al Factotum." For 10 points, name this opera buffa about the servant Figaro, composed by Gioacchino Rossini.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: This ruler faced a scandal when Amy Robsart, the wife of Robert Dudley, died by falling down some stairs. This ruler was dubbed a "servant of crime" and excommunicated in the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis, a response to the passage of the Second Act of Supremacy. Anthony Babington's plan to assassinate this ruler was uncovered by spymaster Francis Walsingham. This ruler ordered the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots and sent Francis Drake to defeat the Spanish Armada. For 10 points, name this Tudor monarch, the "Virgin Queen" of England.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: One of this author's characters stops himself from sleeping with a divorcee by cutting off his own finger and reaffirming his desire to be a monk. A second-person description of a military hospital and a story whose "only hero is truth," set in December and May respectively, are two parts of another of this man's works. This author of "Father Sergius" and the (*) Sevastopol Sketches wrote a novella whose protagonist wonders "What if my whole life has been wrong" while observing his servant Gerasim, after which he spends three days screaming before "some force" strikes him and he succumbs to his injuries from a curtain-hanging mishap. For 10 points, name this author of The Death of Ivan Ilyich, a Russian who also wrote War and Peace.

SOLUTION:
Literature