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 Idler and The Rambler were two periodicals written by this man, and he popularized the term "Metaphysical Poets" in his series of biographies Lives of the Poets. The title prince travels with his mentor Imlac out of Happy Valley in search of true happiness in this author's prose work, Rasselas, while his greatest accomplishment was an epic of over 115,000 entries, the standard of its type until the creation of the Oxford English version. Author of an 18th-century Dictionary of the English Language, FTP name this British writer whose own biography was written by his one-time companion James Boswell.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: The retreating side tried concentrating its central forces in superior positions on hills around Pozzolengo and Guidizollo. One of the early advances was stifled by mulberry trees and grapevines, and a force under d'Hilliers advanced slightly past Castiglione before noticing the opposing army. Nine hours of fighting along a 15-mile front ensued, and after the battle the Peace of Villafranca was signed. Fought near an Italian village in 1859, FTP, name this victory for a French and Sardinian army which was witnessed by Jean-Henri Dunant, who was inspired by it to help found the Red Cross.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: This man examined the failings of philosophers in debate in a work that outlines thirty-eight methods for winning an argument. Another work by this philosopher opens with a critique of Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals and was the only entry in an essay contest this man still failed to win. This thinker claimed that anyone who could read Phenomenology of Mind "without feeling as if he were in a madhouse, would qualify as an inmate for Bedlam." This author of The Art of  (*) Being Right and On the Basis of Morality used the phrase "operating on a blind man's cataracts" to characterize reading Kant in a work whose fourth book, "Ethics," delves into Eastern philosophy and specifically self-denial following a discussion of aesthetics. Describing unobservable truth as a "thing-in-itself," for 10 points, name this author of On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and The World as Will and Representation.

SOLUTION:
Social Science