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 author's short stories include one about doctor who offers water from the Fountain of Youth and another based off John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. This author of ""Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"" and ""The Celestial Railroad"" also wrote many stories set in Puritan New England, including ""Young Goodman Brown. "" He also wrote a novel featuring such characters as the minister Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and Hester Prynne. For 10 points, name this American author of The Scarlet Letter.

SOLUTION: Literature

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: One of the reasons this scandal broke was the capture of Eugene Hasenfus after his Fairchild C-123 cargo plane was shot down. In it, the executive branch disobeyed the Boland Amendment, leading to the resignation of National Security Adviser Admiral John Poindexter. During this incident the president continued to insist that "we did not negotiate with terrorists" and acted against the wishes of Secretary of State Shultz and Secretary of Defense Weinberger. Much of the work was carried out by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, who diverted money to rebels fighting against the ruling Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Name this scandal during the Reagan presidency that involved selling weapons to a country headed by Ayatollah Khomeini.

SOLUTION:
History