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 man used his experiences in Spain to write Tales of the Alhambra and wrote under the pen name "Jonathan Oldstyle." This man's History of New York was written under the pen name of Diedich Knickerbocker. In another of his works, the main character romances Katrina Van Tassel. That character of this author is driven from the title town by (*) Brom Bones, who dresses as the Headless Horseman to terrify Ichabod Crane. For 10 points, name this American author of "Rip van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: artist was inspired to found a movement in his correspondences with Eva Watson-Schutze. In one exhibition of his work, he claimed "I am an American. . . the search for truth is my obsession. " He executed a series of abstract, subject-free works called Equivalents. One of his works shows a narrow gangway that separates an upper deck of men from a lower deck of women and children on a boat. This artist of The Steerage and founder of the journal Camera Work also depicted a certain woman holding her hands to her face and clutching a cattle skull in many photos. For 10 points, name this Photo Secession founder who took many pictures of his wife, Georgia O'Keeffe.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: Max the Dutchman and Jack Blunt are among the crewmembers of the Highlander who take the title character to Liverpool in one of this man's works, which also sees a notable literary example of spontaneous combustion. This author of Redburn also wrote a work about a desolate group of islands home to the Rock Rodando and the Peruvian mestizo Hunilla, and another work about a Sicilian general who fought the Carthaginians. In addition to The Encantadas and Timoleon, this author wrote about his experience as a captive on Nukuheva, where he believed an infected wound on his leg kept him from being eaten, and another work in which a mutiny aboard a whaling vessel causes much of the crew to be stranded on Tahiti. For 10 pointsname this author of Typee and Omoo who also wrote about Fedallah, Tashtego, Queequeg and Captain Ahab in his novel Moby-Dick.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts