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: His reign saw both the publication of the legal treatise Quadripartitus and the earliest surviving European kingdom-wide financial survey, and the exchequer originated at Winchester at the behest of his minister Roger of Salisbury. He fined William de Mandeville for allowing the escape of Ranulf Flambard from the Tower of London, and he had earlier ceded custody of Cotenin to his brother Robert Curthose to avoid war. The wreck of the White Ship resulted in the death of his only legitimate heir, William theling, and his childless marriage to Adeliza of Louvain resulted in his succession by Stephen of Blois. For 10 points, name this man who won the lordship of Normandy in the battle of Tinchebrai, king of England from 1100 to 1135 and the first Norman ruler not named William.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: After this artist challenged an attributed painting to Correggio that was actually by Francesco Furini, he was inspired to paint Sigismunda. His portrait of Captain Coram was painted for the Foundling Hospital its subject founded. This artist's painting Night depicts a magistrate who has the contents of a chamber pot emptied over him. This artist of The Four Times of the Day included his dog Trump and an S-shaped (*) "line of beauty" on a palette in his self-portrait The Painter and his Pug. Another of his artistic subjects is depicted dumping his pregnant fiancee Sarah Young and has his watch stolen by syphilis infected whores before he goes to Fleet debtor's prison and ends up in an insane asylum. For 10 points, name this satirist who depicted seedy London life in A Harlot's Progress and A Rake's Progress.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: This piece was requested by Bernard Scholz, although the composer ignored his request not to orchestrate it heavily, and Hugo Alfvn used it as inspiration for the Uppsala Rhapsody. This piece includes a bassoon solo playing "Wir hatten gebauet ein stattliches Haus", and a similar song, "Fuchslied", is also featured. The highly evocative finale of this piece utilizes the song Gaudeamus igitur and evokes rapture and common German drinking songs. This piece was written as a companion piece to its composers earlier Tragic Overture. For ten points, identify this piece which was written in thanks for an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau, which was written by Johannes Brahms.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts