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 tenth, written in E major, attempts to imitate the sound of a cimbalom through use of fast arpeggios and tremolos. The fourth was written in D minor and designated Lento A Capriccio, while the first of them was written in F minor and designated Lento Quasi Marcia Funebre. The Horowitz transcription of its last disregards much of the lassan section. Entitled Rakoczy March, this fifteenth section is not as famous as the second in D minor, which most may recognize from cartoons. FTP, identify this series of fifteen sketches based on Gypsy music by Franz Liszt.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: Some 37 delegates were killed in Mechanics Hall in this city while drafting a new constitution. This city hosted the unsuccessful World Cotton Centennial in 1884. During the Civil War, the so-called "Women's Order" issued in this city made it a crime to insult (+) Union soldiers, although that order eventually led to the removal of Benjamin Butler as its military commander. This city fell to Union forces under the command of David Farragut in the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip. French representatives (*) relinquished control of this city from its Cabildo statehouse following a massive land transfer to the US in 1803. For 10 points, name this site of a battle where General Packenham's soldiers were defeated by those under Andrew Jackson after the signing of the Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 1812.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: the right side of this painting, a man in red grasps the bridge of his nose as he extends his other arm upward. On the left of this work, a man in blue has his face and arms against a stone wall, just around the corner from a lamp that burns on a stand. Three people in the left background of this painting ascend a staircase, not witnessing the title event. On the floor rests an open manacle, which was probably used to bind this work's title character. Its title character sits on a bed with his left index finger in the air as Plato's hand rests on his knee. For 10 points, name this Jacque Louis-David painting the shows the title philosopher reaching for a cup of hemlock.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts