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: In the aria Mal reggendo, one character in this opera relates how a strange voice stopped his hand from killing his opponent in a duel in Act 1. The arias Di due figli and Abbietta zingara are used by one character to narrate a ghost story to a gathering which is dispersed by the ringing of a bell. In Prima che d'altri vivere, the protagonist bids farewell to his lover after she poisons herself. After the first act in which Ferrando conjures the image of a baby burnt alive on a pyre, Chi del gitano i giorni abbella, or the Anvil Chorus, is sung by a group of gypsies. After the death of Leonora, the mother of Azucena is avenged when Count di Luna orders the execution of the title character Manrico. FTP, name this opera by Giuseppe Verdi.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: This thinker derisively claimed ""the libertarian is the only believer in causation"" at the opening of his early essay ""The Ego as Cause. "" In other works, he wrote a chapter entitled ""The United States, Incorporated"" which imagined corporate takeover, and wrote about the ""free play of intelligence. "" He advocated making "nature and the science of nature the willing servants of human good,"" and stated that communication is the key to turning the "Great Society" into a "Great Community. "" His namesake Commission included men like Carleton Beals and investigated Soviet charges against Leon Trotsky. This author of "What Humanism Means to Me" wrote the previous book to rebut the claims of Walter Lippmann, who held that ""the public"" was a phantom. FTP, name this author of The Quest for Certainty, an American philosopher who wrote all kinds of works on democracy and education.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: One character in this novel meets his love interest through the feminist Kukshina. That character's love interest kisses him on the head before he dies of typhus contracted during an autopsy. One character is invited to Kolyazin's ball and another meets Sitnikov, who arrives uninvited at Anna Odintsov's. In this novel, Pavel is shot in the leg in a duel while his father Nikolai marries Fenitchka, and his brother marries Katya Odintsov. Centering on Arkady Kirsanov and the nihilist Bazarov, for 10 points, name this novel by Ivan Turgenev.

SOLUTION:
Literature