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: Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were two Black Panthers shot to death in this city while they were asleep. Anthony Abbate (read: A BODY) violently beat the bartender Karolina Obrycka in this city after she refused to continue serving him. Jon Burge was convicted of perjury in this city in 2010, which he committed in the course of civil suits against him for the torture he ordered as Commander of the Area 2 violent crimes unit in the 1980s. In 1886, seven anarchists were sentenced to death in this city following an incident when a pipe bomb explosion caused a line of policemen to fire into a crowd of striking workers in Haymarket Square in this city. For ten points, what is this city notorious for police violence, particularly the violence ordered by Mayor Richard J. Daley during the 1968 Democratic National Convention

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: poem by this author describes a wall inscribed with the phrase "PARAS THIRTEEN, BOGSIDE NIL" and is an elegy for a man who "drank like a fish" before he was "blown to bits. " He included the image of a "four foot box, a foot for every year" in a poem narrated by a student who "sat all morning in the college sick bay counting bells knelling classes to a close. " This author of "Casualty" wrote of a student of Miss Walls who collects "jampotfulls" of (*) "frogspawn" in another poem. He wrote that "my squat pen rests" "between my finger and my thumb" in a poem that compares his profession to his father's labor in the bogs. For 10 points, name this poet who included "Mid-Term Break" and "Digging" in his collection The Death of a Naturalist, an Irish Nobel winner who translated Beowulf.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: This artist drew a large white cross stretching the entire length of the background of a lithograph titled  Tightrope Walker, and late in life this artist painted a male and female in front of a brown background studded with jewel-like colors in The Travelling Circus. A copper etching by this artist shows a winged angel that was said to be the image of the "angel of history" by Walter Benjamin, and this artist also painted a group of (*) colored arches that appear to be marching. This artist of Angelus Novus  and Viaducts Break Ranks wrote a Pedagogical Sketchbook, and his notebooks collect his lectures on art from the Bauhaus. Another work by this artist shows a pit under a wire and crank, on which four birds are perched. For 10 points, name this German-Swiss artist of Twittering Machine.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts