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: The elimination mechanism by which the dehydration of its major product occurs necessarily involves the abstraction of an acidic hydrogen and displacement of the leaving group. The catalyst in this reaction itself is regenerated from the deprotonation of water in its final step, which results in the conversion of its intermediate, an alkoxide. An aldehyde or ketone had originally undergone a nucleophilic-addition-type process to produce that alkoxide, which had converted it from a nucleophilic enolate using a hydroxide ion catalyst. Producing a final product known as a beta-hydroxyaldehyde, FTP, name this condensation reaction whose name combines that of its two final products.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: These compounds are described using the  E-Z [E dash Z] notation when they occur across alkenes, and a more generalized version of that notation is the cis-trans notation. Both of those are examples of diastereomers [di-uh-stereo-mers], and examples of these include cyclohexane and hexene. Differing bonding patterns make up structural ones of these compounds. When these compounds are mirror images of each other, they are referred to as enantiomers [en-anti-omers]. For 10 points, name these compounds that have varying chemical structures despite having the same chemical formula.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: This states largest city endured an 1855 Rum Riot, put down with the help of 1880 Prohibitionist Candidate for President Neal S. Dow.One of this state's Native American tribes won back 300,000 acres of land from the state government in Passamaquoddy v. Morton.Its twentieth division, commanded by Joshua Chamberlain, defended the extreme left of the Union line on Little Round Top at Gettysburg. Home to the industrial site of Bath Iron Works, it briefly allowed for same-sex marriages under Governor John Baldacci. Until the 1960s, it held a gubernatorial election in September, and an unresolved border in this state prompted the Aroostook War. For 10 points, name this state, home to Continental Liar James G. Blaine, which broke off from its southern neighbor Massachusetts in 1820.

SOLUTION:
History