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: George Meredith's bitter collection Modern Love is composed of works in a modified form of this style. Edmund Spenser's Amoretti is composed of eighty-nine of these, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote a collection of them "from the Portuguese." Works in the English variety of this form can be divided into three quatrains and a couplet, and the Petrarchan type is divided into an octave and a sestet. For 10 points, name these fourteen-line poems.

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: This man convened a constitutional convention in Chatham, Canada, and took the pseudonym "Isaac Smith" while living at the Kennedy Farmhouse in order to scout out one target. Emily Dickinson's correspondent Thomas Wentworth Higginson was among the "Secret Six" who supported this man. He arrived at the Wakarusa War just as a peace treaty was about to be signed in Lawrence, Kansas. This man killed five pro-slavery settlers in the 1856 Pottawatomie massacre, and was quashed by Robert E. Lee in his attempt to seize a federal arsenal. For 10 points, name this abolitionist who was hanged after leading the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.

SOLUTION:
History