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: This politician beat out George Dewey to be the Democratic presidential candidate with Adlai Stevenson I, and his opposition to heavy retaliation after the Lusitania affair caused him to resign from his post as Secretary of State under Wilson. This man argued for the prosecution against Clarence Darrow in the Scopes Monkey Trial and advocated [*] bimetallism in a speech proclaiming that "you shall not press down on the brow of labor this crown of thorns." For 10 points, name this Populist orator who said that "you shall not crucify mankind on a Cross of Gold" and who ran for president and lost in both 1896 and 1900.

SOLUTION: History

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: Howard Belsey's hatred of this painter is central to the plot of On Beauty. A stunned woman in a   red dress on the right of one of his paintings spills something from a gold goblet. Hebrew text in the  upper right of that painting is written in columns instead of right to left. Many men in white ruffs   are enthralled by the exposed musculature of a man's forearm in one of his paintings. Another work  by this artist shows a military company headed by Frans Banning Cocq. Identify this Dutch artist of  Belshazzar's Feast, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, and The Night Watch.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts