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: It sparked a sermon entitled On the Beauties of Liberty by John Allen, a pastor at the Second Baptist Church, which was widely disseminated. The tragically named Governor Wanton issued a reward of one hundred pounds for the capture of the perpetrators, who were led by Abraham Whipple, while Captain John Linzee offered the survivors shelter on board the Beaver. Hes not to be confused with Benjamin Lindsay, the captain of the sloop Hannah, whose attempts to evade paying customs indirectly led to it. The resulting Royal Commission of Inquiry, outside of local jurisdiction, was attacked as a British kangaroo court by Whigs who demanded a trial in Rhode Island. For ten points, name this 1772 incident in which a British warship was burned by angry patriots.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: The war named for this place was ended when Clazomenae and Cyprus were transferred to Persia through the Peace of Antalcidas, which was put forth by Artaxerxes II. A league named for this place was brought back into existence by Demetrius Poliorcetes, but it didn't have anything to do following the battle of Ipsus. This city joined the Achaean Confederation after being captured by Aratus in 243 BC, and was destroyed by Lucius Mummius in 146 to teach the Greeks a lesson. Its early rulers include Cypselus and Periander, though it is better known for the action it took against Megara which set off the Peloponnesian War. FTP, name this city on the isthmus joining the Peloponnesus and central Greece, whose citizens were the lucky recipients of a couple of epistles from Saint Paul.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: This thinker argued that one should engage with unstable structures through flexible play in an essay about the "rupture" of the center in Western thought. The first section of one work by this thinker asserts that Western thought privileges phonetic languages and speech over writing. This author of "Structure, Sign, and Play" formulated the "trace" and wrote another work that maintains that concepts like "light and dark" exist in uneven binary pairs and introduced the term "differance". For 10 points, name this French thinker who wrote Writing and Difference and Of Grammatology and founded deconstructionism.

SOLUTION:
Social Science