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: In one novel by this author, the false talent scout Maurice Venice recruits the protagonist while Dr. Tamkin takes Tommy Wilhelm's money. In another of his novels, Dr. Elya Gruner is the niece of the title one-eyed Polish Holocaust survivor. This author of Seize the Day and Mr. Sammler's Planet wrote a novel in which the title character fights for custody of Junie with his second wife Madeleine, Herzog. His most famous protagonist marries Stella after going to Mexico with Thea and working for Einhorn. For 10 points, name this Jewish author who wrote about ""an American, Chicago-born"" in his novel The Adventures of Augie March.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: A ubiquitin ligase that marks specific proteins which the 26S proteasome breaks down is known as its (*) promoting complex, and in plants, the step immediately following it features vesicles moving along the phragmoplast. The step preceding it is ended by inactivation of cyclin dependent kinases, and the kinetochore fibers become shorter during this step. Chromatid pairs separate into identical chromosomes, which are subsequently pulled to the poles by the spindle fibers. FTP, identify this step of cell division that follows metaphase.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: The last major land battles in this conflict were at Assietta and Lauffeld, and it is also noted for Dettingen, the last battle in which a British monarch led troops. The French took, but were forced to return, Madras in the First Carnatic War, an Indian phase of this war, while the capture and return of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island occurred in the North American phase, King George's War. Prince Charles Albert of Bavaria was one of the claimants in this war that was ended by the 1748 treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. It began with Frederick II of Prussia's failure to agree with Charles VI's Pragmatic Sanction of 1713. FTP, name this war over Maria Theresa's ascension to the throne of its namesake country with capital Vienna.

SOLUTION:
History