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: Eleazer Hosannah convinces a mob of the death of Dr. Godspeak in this authors play Requiem for a Futurologist. This author described a racist landlady who asks a potential tenant ARE YOU LIGHT OR VERY DARK in Telephone Conversation, and wrote about mendicants operated on by the sinister Bero in Madmen and Specialists. This author of the recent King Baabu also wrote a play about the metamorphosis of a religious charlatan first introduced in The Trials of Brother Jero, and depicted a ruler who forces Danlola to present him with the New Yam in a play about a dictator based on Nkrumah. FTP, name this playwright of Kongi's Harvest who described the ritual sacrifice of Elesin in Death and the Kings Horseman.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: Although only 20,000 Americans died during this conflict, over 100,000 died in the ensuing Bolo War. Origins of this war included outrage over General Weylers creation of concentration camps and the outrage over the De Lme Letter. In the end, the Treaty of Paris ended the war, giving payments to the European belligerent but giving America Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. FTP; name this war which began in the McKinley Administration after the sinking of the USS Maine.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: After Mieszko helped to unify the tribes, his son Boleslaw became the first king of this country in 1024. This country's legal code was developed under Casimir, and Poniatowski created this country's Committee of National Education. This nation was partitioned in an agreement set up by Frederick the Great in 1772. The German-Soviet pact divided this country, which was the first nation invaded by the Nazis in World War II. For 10 points, name this Eastern European country, the site of Auschwitz and the Warsaw Uprising.

SOLUTION:
History