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: Early in his career he was forced to share power with John Carteret, but was eventually able to force his resignation. He spent time in jail for graft during a period of Tory ascendancy, but was most popular for his economic policies, including his establishment of the sinking fund to reduce the national debt, which he had also addressed with his resolution of the South Sea Bubble crisis. However, he was forced from office due to British failures in the early stages of the War of the Austrian Succession. FTP, who was this first official Prime Minister of Britain

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: The magnetic moment of a charged particle is equal to this quantity times the g-factor times charge divided by two times the mass. Delta baryons have a value of 1.5 for this quantity, and, like other particles with half-integer values of this quantity, obey Fermi-Dirac statistics, whereas those with integer values obey (*) Bose-Einstein statistics. The Pauli Exclusion Principle states that pairs of electrons in the same orbital sub-shell must have opposite values of this quantity. For ten points, identify this quantum number, the angular momentum of a sub-atomic particle.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: Eccy de Jonge has written about this philosopher's connection to the environmental concept of Deep Ecology, which topic was also written about by Brenden MacDonald. In one of his works, this man wrote about "the popular confusion of ready imagination with distinct understanding," which section occurs after one discussing "true ideas," which are the instruments of the titular idea. This author of (*) On the Improvement of the Understanding wrote that reason does not preclude God from giving law to mankind in a work which also discussed the relativity of good and evil. This author of Tractatus Theological-Politicus also wrote a work in which the nature of God, the mind, human bondage to the emotions, and the power of understanding, are arranged in a geometric order. For ten points, name this Dutch moral philosopher who wrote Ethics.

SOLUTION:
Social Science