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: This reaction is combined with an aldol condensation to produce cyclohexenones in a process named for Robinson, and a variation of this uses silyl ethers and titanium tetrachloride, in a reaction named also for Mukaiyama. In a process analogous to this reaction, performed with simple ketones, the equilbrium is shifted towards the reagents, unlike in the Claisen and aldol condensations, necessitating the use of an enolate in conjugate addition to produce the 1,4-addition. For 10 points, what is this reaction named for an American chemist, which consists of the addition of a carbanion to an alpha, beta unsaturated carbonyl

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: The Providers order that Al-lith marry Ben Ata in one of this author's works, which is the second part of a series that ends with Krolgul and Klorathy returning to Shammat. In addition to The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five and The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire, both part of this author's Canopus in Argos series, this author wrote about the birth of Ben to Harriet and David Lovatt in The Fifth Child and the cat-dog Hugo that accompanies Emily Cartwright in Memoirs of a Survivor. More well known works by this author include one in which Moses kills Mary, the wife of Dick Turner, and one in which stories from Anna Wulf's life are interspersed with excerpts from the novel Free Women. For 10 pointsname this author of The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: This composer's operatic collaborations with Abbate Giulio Convo include Irene, Il Giustino, and his first opera, Ottavia Restored to the Throne. He wrote two notable masses labeled "Quator Vocum" and "La Stella", or "The Star". His most notable works include a set of thirty didactic keyboard pieces entitled Essercizi. Although his works were catalogued by Giorgio Pestelli and Alessandro Longo, the authoritative version of his works was compiled by Ralph Kirkpatrick, giving them the K. numbers. FTP, name this Italian keyboardist and composer of a set of five hundred fifty-five keyboard sonatas, the son of opera composer Alessandro.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts