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: A recent mass death of puffins off this nation's coast has mirrored a similar dead bird event in Arkansas. In the aftermath of one recent crisis in this nation, Edison Pena was invited to (*) Graceland to celebrate Elvis's 76th birthday, but that man and his fellows are better-known for being the subject of a rescue mission based at the tent city Camp Hope. For 10 points, name this nation that recently saw thirty-three miners emerge safely from underground after being trapped for 69 days, whose rescue capsule from that incident now resides in Santiago.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: One character in this novel tries to make up for his misdeeds by donating his retinas. The narrator clears his deceased great-grandfather of a reputation for deserting a (*) peasant revolt, and the protagaonist's alcoholic wife sleeps with a student who has just come back from America. Also, a riot happens at the grocery store run by a Korean named "the emperor. " For 10 points Mitsu has a retarded son in what Kenzaburo Oe novel

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: This ruler's chief minister, Georg Heinrich von Gortz, became hated for debasing his nation's  currency through the issuing of copper tokens. This ruler manipulated the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III  into an unpopular war with Russia, therefore making himself the target of an uprising called the  "kalabalik." He was killed while besieging the fortress of Fredriksten, after which his army was  decimated by a brutal winter while making this ruler's namesake "Death March." After two early  victories, he forced (*) Frederick IV and Augustus the Strong to sign the Treaties of Travendal and  Altranstadt, respectively, but he is perhaps best known for a crushing defeat he suffered after allying  himself with the Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa. For 10 points, name this loser of the Battle of Poltava,  who ruled as King of Sweden for much of the Great Northern War.

SOLUTION:
History