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: This artist executed the Blue series for the Centre Pompidou and Personages and Birds for the Wichita State Art Museum, while a stuffed parrot sits on top of his sculpture simply called Object. A Jan Steen painting influenced the second entry in his Dutch Interiors series, and he created the ceramic murals Wall of the Sun and Wall of the Moon for the UNESCO building. A blackberry jam stain became his Birth of the World, and another work features the multi-colored title animal below the multi-colored title celestial object. For 10 points, name this artist of Dog Barking at the Moon and Harlequin's Carnival, a Catalan surrealist.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: This country's early railways include the spiral tunnels of the Gotthard line, and its Glacier Express railroad has a terminus at St. Moritz. This home of the vineyard terraces at Lavaux ("luh-VOE") is home to a castle where Lord Byron's poem "The Prisoner of Chillon" is set. This country hosts the yearly World Economic Forum at Davos. This country includes about eighty thousand speakers of Romansh, its fourth official language. For 10 points, name this landlocked European country home to Lake Lucerne, whose Alps include the north face of the Matterhorn.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: This thinker derisively claimed ""the libertarian is the only believer in causation"" at the opening of his early essay ""The Ego as Cause. "" In other works, he wrote a chapter entitled ""The United States, Incorporated"" which imagined corporate takeover, and wrote about the ""free play of intelligence. "" He advocated making "nature and the science of nature the willing servants of human good,"" and stated that communication is the key to turning the "Great Society" into a "Great Community. "" His namesake Commission included men like Carleton Beals and investigated Soviet charges against Leon Trotsky. This author of "What Humanism Means to Me" wrote the previous book to rebut the claims of Walter Lippmann, who held that ""the public"" was a phantom. FTP, name this author of The Quest for Certainty, an American philosopher who wrote all kinds of works on democracy and education.

SOLUTION:
Social Science