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 aristocratic Fourteen Families survived the crash of this country's indigo industry by slavedriving their way into coffee-producing wealth, while its natoional tradition venerates the Pipil warriors who repelled Pedro de Alvorado. Occult enthusiast Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez responded to Farabundo Marti's 1932 peasant uprising in this country by initiating a brutally systematic mass murder of its citizens known as "the slaughter, or la matanza. Roberto D'Aubuisson, the founder of this country's ARENA party, was revealed to be incurably genocidal and implicated in the deaths of Rutilio Grande and Archbishop Oscar Romero. Tensions over the border near the Gulf of Fonseca were ignited by a 1970 FIFA qualifying match, leading this country and Honduras to fight the soccer war. For 10 points, name this Central American country with capital at San Salvador.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: Japan's Chikyu Hakken is trying to reach this region, and n-waves travel along its upper boundary. Post-perovskite forms in the bottommost part of this region, the D double prime layer. P-waves slow down and S-waves disappear past the bottom of this region, and its top features a P-wave velocity jump from approximately seven to approximately eight kilometers per second. The low velocity zone of the asthenosphere is found in the upper part of this region. It is sandwiched between the Gutenburg discontinuity and the Moho, and this layer's namesake plumes form hotspots. For 10 points, name this layer of the earth between the crust and the core.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: It is often believed that either verses by Agnolo Poliziano or texts by Ovid and Lucretius were the inspirations for this painting. Its artist gave one of this painting's characters the face of another person, whose portrait he had painted in Catherine of Alexandria. In this painting, the central figure, who is wearing a red cloak, is next to Flora, who is scattering flowers on the ground to her right. Stretching his hand upward to pick oranges is Mercury, wearing his winged shoes and bearing his caduceus. On the right, Zephyr is in pursuit of the nymph Chloris, while Cupid, floating above Venus, is aiming his arrows at the Graces, who are dancing at left. FTP, name this Sandro Botticelli painting which depicts the arrival of the title season

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts