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: To isolate volatile compounds from nonvolatile impurities, the steam form of this process is used when the compounds decompose at standard temperatures and pressures. Two miscible liquids are heated under a Liebig condenser to increase the concentration of the liquid with the lower boiling point in a common type of this process. FTP, name this separation method by boiling point, whose fractional variety yields cosmetics from petroleum and alcohol from a water mixture.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: After watching a boxing match between two angry dwarves, Dan Moore yells Jesus was once a leper! in one story in this collection. In addition to Box Seat, it includes stories about Esther, who loves the mystic King Barlo, and Becky, who is shunned for bearing mulatto sons. Another story in it describes Seventh Street, which infuses black reddish blood into the white and whitewashed wood of Washington, and a white mob burns Tom Burwell alive for killing Bob Stone in its story Blood-Burning Moon. Its authors time in rural Georgia inspired its final section, Kabnis. Beginning with a story describing the beauty of Karintha and a poem about the Black Reapers of the title plant, FTP, name this modernist collection of short stories and poems by Jean Toomer.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: This artist painted a scene from Tacitus in which a one-eyed, bearded man in a cloth crown beckons to several others around a table to cross swords with him. One of his paintings includes a well-lit girl in a gold dress holding a dead chicken. This artist of The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis painted Aris Kindt's tendon being prodded by the title doctor in The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp. In another painting, he showed a drummer amidst the rifle-bearing shooting company of Franz Banning Cocq. For 10 points, name this Dutch painter of The Night Watch.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts