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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.
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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.
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Science


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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
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History


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This artist drew a marriage portrait whose right side shows the temple of Juno, while the couple leans against an ivy-covered tree in the left foreground beside a thistle representing the pains of birth. In another one of his paintings a child holding a lute wears a feathered beret suggesting the piece is an allegory for hearing because a feather on one's head legendarily corresponds to strong sensitivity. Along with Yonker Ramp and his Sweetheart and Two Boys Singing, his only full length, life-size portrait shows a man holding a black sword who is standing in front of a burgundy drape, while a rose bush at his feet indicates the transience of love that made him a bachelor. Another piece has derisively come to be called "The Meager Company" and that work depicts Captain Reynier Raenal's crossbow regiment. In addition to his portrait of Willem van Heythuyzen, one of works acquired its misleading title from a Victorian exhibition organized by Richard Wallace. An owl perches on the left shoulder of an old woman opening a tankard in his Malle Babbe and he did several group portraits of the St. George and St. Hadrian Civic Guards. For 10 points, name this Dutch artist who painted The Jolly Topper and The Laughing Cavalier.
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Fine Arts