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 territory invaded during this war asked to borrow gunpowder to salute a ship that had come to conquer it. One island invaded in this war had been overseen by the "Butcher" Weyler. An admiral in this war stated "You may (*) fire when you are ready," prior to beginning the Battle of Manila Bay. One battle in this "splendid little war" saw San Juan Hill charged upon by the Rough Riders and Teddy Roosevelt. Hearst's and Pulitzer's yellow journalism as well as the explosion of the USS Maine helped instigate this war. For 10 points, name this war which led to the capture of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Cuba by the United States.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: This artist drew a god-figure flying near some clouds while Eve draws Adam's attention to the fruit in a tree in a painting of "The Earthly Paradise" in a series including "The Spies with the Grapes of the Promised Land;" that series is The Four Seasons. A man raises his red cloak with his left hand from atop a pedestal on the left of a painting by this artist who depicted a cherub blowing bubbles at the bottom left of a painting that also includes (*) Aurora leading Apollo's chariot in the sky near the ring of the zodiac; that painting features a winged old man on the right playing a lyre. This artist showed a woman in gold and blue placing her hand on the back of one of three shepherds at a tomb inscribed with the title phrase. For 10 points, name this painter of A Dance to the Music of Time and Et in Arcadia ego.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: One of their leaders expressed their ideology in the pamphlet "Truth. "  Drawn from such organizations as the Union of Welfare and the Union of Salvation, their acts were immortalized in a special issue of the periodical The Northern Star. Some ten days after their initial military operation had been defeated another force of 1,100 men in Chernigov led by the Southern Society rose up to challenge the ascension of Nicholas I. Led by such men as Pavel Pestel, they sought to set Prince Trubetskoy up as provisional dictator until Constantine could take power. FTP, identify this group of Russian revolutionaries who took took name from the month in which they planned their uprising.

SOLUTION:
History