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 Vermont native's political positions included head of House and then Senate committees on territories, in which capacity he gave a speech telling opponents of expansion that "you cannot fetter the limbs of this young giant. " His support for expansion led him to favor repeal of the Missouri Compromise and he answered the Dred Scott decision by supporting popular sovereignty in what became known as the Freeport Doctrine. For 10 points, name this man who ran for president against John Bell, John C. Breckenridge and Abraham Lincoln, against the last of whom he had held a famous series of debates in Illinois.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: An author from this country wrote about The Maniac, who impersonates a judge in Accidental Death    of an Anarchist. Another author from this country wrote of a boy who steals a Nazi's gun in The Path  to the Nest of Spiders. Another writer from this country wrote about interruptions to a production of   a play by characters such as the Father and the Mother in Six Characters in Search of an Author. A  series of one hundred tales is told in another work from this country called The Decameron. Identify  this country, the home of Dario Fo, Italo Calvino, Luigi Pirandello, and Boccaccio [boh-KAHT-choh].

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: The secondary type of this tissue is produced on the adaxial side of the vascular cambium, whereas the primary type of this tissue is located closest to the pith. Tracheids and vessel elements make up this tissue, and one mechanism for its function involves the evaporation of water at the mesophyll cells in leaves and the resulting pressure at roots called transpirational pull, which allows water and minerals to travel through the plant. For 10 points, identify this type of vascular tissue in plants that is complemented by the phloem.

SOLUTION:
Science