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: The name of one character created by this author was used as a pseudonym by Charles P. Jacobs in a letter accusing Thomas Hardy of plagiarism. That character is introduced as a half-drowned body being carried into the Black Lion Inn. In addition to Timothy Crabshaw, this author wrote of a figure who tries to seduce Monimia by throwing Count Melvil under the bus, and about Tom Bowlings service on the HMS Thunder. This author of Launcelot Greaves and Ferdinand, Count Fathom wrote a novel in which Thomas Pipes is sent by Commodore Trunion to help a man who eventually marries Emilia Gauntlet, and another Lydia Melford and Letitia Lewis carry on a similar friendship through letters as Dr. Richard Lewis does with Matthew Bramble. For 10 points, name this author of Peregrine Pickle, Roderick Random, and Humphrey Clinker.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: In the Corey-Bakshi-Shibata catalyst, an atom of it is attached to a pyrrole ring, an oxygen atom, and a toluene group. This element's acids are combined with amines and ketones in the Petasis reaction and in combining alkyl halides through the Suzuki coupling. Complexes containing it are called sido or arachno according to Wade's rules, and a more famous reaction using it is sometimes named for Herbert Brown. Mined from the ore Uletite, its silicate was once used in making hard glass for manufacturing laboratory equipment. For 10 points, name this element that participates in an anti-markonikov addition reaction to alkenes, with atomic number 5 and symbol B.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: This author calls the title entity a "true daughter of Old Time" in his Sonnet to Science. In one short story by this man, Rowena dies and is reborn as the title character, who had written the poem "The Conqueror Worm." This author of Ligeia wrote about an object taken by Minister D, and another of his stories takes place at [*] Prince Prospero's ball. A man escapes from the Inquisition with the help of some rats in a work by this man, and one of his stories sees Fortunato sealed in a dungeon by Montresor. Author of The Masque of the Red Death and The Purloined Letter, for 10 points, name this creator of Auguste Dupin who wrote The Pit and the Pendulum and The Cask of Amontillado.

SOLUTION:
Literature