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 quantity can be defined as minus the temperature times the derivative of entropy with respect to particle number. The Gibbs factor is a generalization of the Boltzmann factor that takes this quantity into account. Usually defined as the derivative of the Helmholtz free energy with respect to particle number, FTP name this quantity which governs particle flow, as particles flow from systems with higher values to systems with lower values.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: To the speaker of this poem and "to darkness" is left the world by a ploughman who "homeward plods his weary way." The speaker of this poem muses about "hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, or waked to ecstasy the living lyre." The denizens of the title location of this poem were "forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne," meaning one of them may be "some (*) Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood." This poem concerns those who lived "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife," and it begins as "the curfew tolls the knell of parting day." For 10 points, name this poem by Thomas Gray.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: This character stands next to a cannon to watch a football game shortly after describing a work entitled "The Secret Goldfish." He was once the manager of a fencing team, and he stays at the Edmont Hotel after talking to a cabbie about where the ducks in Central Park go in the winter. He is beaten up by Maurice after refusing to sleep with Sunny, and this character is haunted by thoughts of [*] James Castle. This character has conflicts with Sally Hayes, Mr. Spencer, and Mr. Antolini, and he gets back his red hunting hat from his sister Phoebe, one of the only people this character doesn't think is a "phony." For 10 points, name this narrator of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.

SOLUTION:
Literature