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: One protagonist in this novel spends a summer with the wife of Colonel Forster, and that character's aunt and uncle have the surname Gardiner. One character in this novel initially rejects a marriage proposal by Mr. Collins, while her sister is romanced by Mr. Bingley, and another romance in this novel is initiated by the master of Pemberley, Mr. Darcy. For 10 points, name this novel about the sisters of the Bennet family, one of whom is Elizabeth, by Jane Austen.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: In 1999, McIlroy created an adversary for this algorithm that guarantees that it will run in worst-case time. Its worst-case runtime can be avoided by switching to heapsort after a certain recursion depth, a construction known as introsort. Like mergesort, it is easily parallelizable, and its runtime can be decreased by first selecting the median of the unsorted input list. It was invented by C.A.R. Hoare, and its second phase is the partition function, which splits the original list into lists of elements that are greater or less than the chosen pivot value. For 10 points, identify this divide-and-conquer sorting algorithm which runs in big O of n log n time, named for its speed.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: As emperor, he transferred the last legion that was led by a senatorial proconsul to the command of an imperial legate, thus completing the complete control of the Roman army by the emperor. Although he may have been epileptic and did have a deep attachment to his sister Drusilla, accounts of his reign are so biased that it is difficult to ascertain his true actions. It is not true, however, that he made his horse a consul, though Suetonius claims he would have had he lived longer. FTP, name this wacky emperor who ruled Rome from 37 to 41 C.E.

SOLUTION:
History