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: Materials with this property can exhibit a noise arising from self-organized criticality known as the Barkhausen effect. The Ising model was originally formulated to study this phenomenon, in which regions become separated by Bloch walls and materials exhibiting this property are frequently subject to hysteretic effects. The anti variety of this property disappears above the Neel point, while this property itself disappears above the Curie point, where the material transitions to paramagnetism. FTP, identify this form of magnetism resulting from the spontaneous alignment of domains, which is present in metals such as nickel and iron.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: This work premiered as part of a charity concert series and was troubled by last-minute rearrangements and other production difficulties. After various demands from Jonathan Swift, the dean of St. Patricks Cathedral, the work was finally allowed to premiere on April 13, 1741 in Dublin. The work is divided into three parts, all dealing with different aspects of the life of what the composer considered the title entity. Famous arias from the work include I know that my Redeemer liveth, and Every Valley shall be exalted. The finale chorus of the work is borrowed from Revelation, while a good deal of the remaining libretto is taken from the Old Testament. FTP, name this oratorio by George Frederic Handel, most famous for the chorus Hallelujah.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: In Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here, this figure authors a "lively pamphlet" where he identifies key politicians as "Liars [who] Have Refused to Accept My Freely Offered Advice" after being appointed Ambassador to England. A pair of lovers turn anything they touch into ivy in his Springtime and Harvest, while he examines eighty-five historical artists in Mammonart, one of his (*) "Dead Hand" works. A series of works by this author of They Call Me Carpenter includes Wide is the Gate and World's End and centers on Lanny Budd, while another work tells of James Arnold Ross, whose son Bunny likes socialism. FTP, identify this author of Dragon's Teeth and Oil, best known for writing about Lithuanians like Jurgis Rudkus who endure the horrors of the Chicago stockyards in The Jungle.

SOLUTION:
Literature