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 author's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas led to his imprisonment on sodomy laws, during which time he penned De Profundis. After his release from prison, he wrote a poem containing the line "Yet each man kills the thing he loves", The Ballad of Reading Gaol. This author of An Ideal Husband and Lady Windemere's Fan wrote one play in which Gwendolyn Fairfax loves the title character in part due to his name and in his only novel, this author describes the title character's destruction of a painting done by Basil Hallward. For 10 points, identify this Irish writer of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: This results from phonon interactions in simple metals. Joule heating is caused by this, while Wheatstone bridges are used to find unknown values for this quantity. The thermal form of this quantity is equal to the length of the material over the conductivity times the cross-sectional area. "Drug" this occurs when pathogens become able to survive exposure to certain drugs, rendering those drugs obsolete. Drag is sometimes called this of air. Name this term, the electrical type of which measures of the degree an object opposes the flow of an electrical current, measured in ohms.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: Formed by land speculators and settlers who used threats, intimidation and violence to eventually earn statehood for their homeland in 1791, they gained their most enduring fame, not for those exploits against New Yorkers, but for fighting the British at Bennington and Ticonderoga, under Seth Warner, John Stark, and their founder. For 10 points, name these armed bands of Vermonters founded about 1770 by Ethan Allan.

SOLUTION:
History