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 protagonist of one of his novellas unearths repressed memories like insulting an old man just because he had a great one-liner ready. In that novella by this author, a family of "some ten or twelve" daughters play games like "proverbs" and "foxes and hounds" at the expense of a main character who gets locked in a room for an hour in a game of "hide-and-go-seek." The narrator of another novella by this author concocts elaborate plans to get revenge on an officer who had shoved him out of the way. This author created a girl who dies in the foster care of the Pogoreltsevs, and who turns out to be the daughter, not of (*) Trusotsky, but of Velchaninov. In the second section, "Apropos of the Wet Snow," of one of his novellas, the protagonist accidentally shows up an hour early to a dinner party and gives a speech insulting all of Zverkov's friends. A novella by this author of The Eternal Husband begins "I am a sick man...I am a wicked man." For 10 points, name this author of Notes from Underground.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: This ruler faced a scandal when Amy Robsart, the wife of Robert Dudley, died by falling down some stairs. This ruler was dubbed a "servant of crime" and excommunicated in the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis, a response to the passage of the Second Act of Supremacy. Anthony Babington's plan to assassinate this ruler was uncovered by spymaster Francis Walsingham. This ruler ordered the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots and sent Francis Drake to defeat the Spanish Armada. For 10 points, name this Tudor monarch, the "Virgin Queen" of England.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: This ruler successfully defeated Chnodomarius at the Battle of Strasbourg, capping his campaigns against the Alamanni. This man wrote a satire of his own habits directed at the citizens of Antioch in which he ridiculed his beard, the Misopogon. During a rest stop in Paris, his troops mutinied and declared him emperor, which almost prompted a civil war between this man and Constanius II. He was slain shortly after his victory at Ctesiphon, where he defeated the armies of Shapur II's Sassanid Empire. As emperor, he rejected both the tetrarchal system of Diocletian and the religious values of Constantine. For 10 points, name this Roman Emperor from 355 to 363 CE, whose epithet refers to his Christian paganism in favor of the traditional Roman religion.

SOLUTION:
History