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: To isolate volatile compounds from nonvolatile impurities, the steam form of this process is used when the compounds decompose at standard temperatures and pressures. Two miscible liquids are heated under a Liebig condenser to increase the concentration of the liquid with the lower boiling point in a common type of this process. FTP, name this separation method by boiling point, whose fractional variety yields cosmetics from petroleum and alcohol from a water mixture.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: This man was the subject of a 1949 Henry Cowell opera designed as a satire against Dwight Eisenhower. He died in exile after a conservative coup led by his successor, Ramn Freire. When his father became viceroy of Peru, he was sent to London, where he met Francisco de Miranda and joined the independentist Lautaro Lodge. He began his public life as a deputy to the Cabildo from La Laja. His cavalry charge at the battle of Chacabuco allowed him to enter Santiago in triumph along with Jose de San Martin in March 1818. FTP, name this descendant of Irish officers in Spanish service, the first ruler of an independent Chile.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: This novel's epigraph is taken from Salvador Elizondo's 1972 work El grafgrafo. It ends with the narrator returning home to his wife Patricia after a night of drinking with his colleagues Pascual and Big Pablito, who work at the Genaro family-owned Radio Panamerica. This novel is interspersed with bizarre radio serials written by the Bolivian Pedro Camacho, whose soap operas parallel the love affair between one of the title characters and Mario. FTP, identify this autobiographical work by Mario Vargas Llosa.

SOLUTION:
Literature