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.

[Q]: reality program Murder in Small Town X was set in this state. The possibly first American Indian professional baseball player, "Chief" Sockalexis, was born in this state, while another resident of this state asked "Are you going to vote to have a war or not" to Yuri Andropov. That resident was the schoolgirl Samantha Smith. A film featuring Betty White as the vulgar Mrs. Bickerman and involving killer crocodiles is not set in New York's Lake Placid, but actually in this state. This state is home to such fictional residents as Sheriff Mort Metzger and Dr. Seth Hazlitt, who assist Jessica Fletcher in solving mysteries, while a medical doctor named Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce is also from this state. Featuring such fictional cities as Cabot Cove and Crabapple Cove, this state is also the setting of much of the writings of Sarah Orne Jewett and Stephen King. For 10 points, name this New England state with capital at Augusta.
[A]: Social Science


[Q]: This man created a work designed to show off Frederick Leyland's china collection that involved covering walls in gold leaf, entitled The Peacock Room, and this man painted a model favored by Gustave Courbet, Joanna Hiffernan, as exemplified by his depiction of her in The White Girl. This artist sued John Ruskin over a libelous statement made about a painting set in Cremorne Garden depicting a [*] fireworks show. The creator of a painting showing a seated woman in a black dress and white bonnet looking towards a blue-black curtain on the left, for 10 points, name this American artist of Nocturne in Black and Gold who painted his mother in Arrangement in Gray and Black.
[A]: Fine Arts


[Q]: A story about this war featured a "messenger from God" praying for enemy soldiers to be torn "to bloody sheds" and is titled "The War Prayer." Before war was declared, Vermont Senator Redfield Proctor declared his travels had shown him "the worst misgovernment" and "barbarity" he had seen. A cartoon mocking it featured two men pushing blocks labeled "War" while wearing the smocks of the Yellow Kid. Prior to this war, (*) newspapers labeled Valeriano Weyler the "Butcher," and the Teller Amendment promised the U.S. would not annex land. Called "a splendid little war" by John Hay, its decisive battle was won by George Dewey at Manila Bay. For 10 points, name this 1898 war sparked by the explosion of the Maine, in which Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders won the Battle of San Juan Hill.
[A]:
History