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: Aleksandr Benckendorff was charged with hunting them down, and many had been members of the Union of Salvation and the Union of Welfare. Five of them were officially executed including Pavel Pestel who organized the Southern Society and the poet Kondraty Ryelev who hoped that his Northern faction's refusal to support Nicholas I's ascension would spark an uprising that would leave Prince Trubestkoy as dictator. FTP identify this mostly upper-class group of Russian revolutionaries whose 1825 rebellion failed and who are named for the month in which their aborted operations took place.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: In a Gustave Caillebotte painting named for one of these objects, a dog walks by a man who holds his\n head in his hands. Silvano Vinceti claimed that the numbers two and seven were hidden in one of these\n objects in the background of the Mona Lisa. The title fireworks show of James Whistler's Nocturne in\n Black and Gold takes place over one of these objects. One of these objects named "Maidenhead" is thought\n to have inspired the one J.M.W. Turner painted in Rain, Steam and Speed. A Japanese inspired structure of\n this type at Giverny was often painted alongside water lilies by Claude Monet. For 10 points, name these\n structures which Canaletto often painted crossing the canals of Venice.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: This poet concluded "so now he's gone and I buried him and that's all there is to it" in a poem about a pet who "waits for my arrival waving his fan-like tail in friendship." This author of "A Dog Has Died" wrote "my moist desire nests / in your arms of transparent stone" in a poem beginning "Ah vastness of pines." The speaker of another poem by him "climbed through the lost jungle's tortured thicket" to a "high city of laddered stones" and says "rise up to be born with me, my brother" after reaching the title location. His odes to ordinary things, such as a "large tuna in the market," were collected in Elemental Odes. One of his collections includes a poem which begins "tonight I can write the saddest lines" and ends with "A Song of Despair." For 10 points, name the Chilean author of "The Heights of Machu Picchu," which is part of his Canto General.

SOLUTION:
Literature