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 work premiered as part of a charity concert series and was troubled by last-minute rearrangements and other production difficulties. After various demands from Jonathan Swift, the dean of St. Patricks Cathedral, the work was finally allowed to premiere on April 13, 1741 in Dublin. The work is divided into three parts, all dealing with different aspects of the life of what the composer considered the title entity. Famous arias from the work include I know that my Redeemer liveth, and Every Valley shall be exalted. The finale chorus of the work is borrowed from Revelation, while a good deal of the remaining libretto is taken from the Old Testament. FTP, name this oratorio by George Frederic Handel, most famous for the chorus Hallelujah.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: To isolate volatile compounds from nonvolatile impurities, the steam form of this process is used when the compounds decompose at standard temperatures and pressures. Two miscible liquids are heated under a Liebig condenser to increase the concentration of the liquid with the lower boiling point in a common type of this process. FTP, name this separation method by boiling point, whose fractional variety yields cosmetics from petroleum and alcohol from a water mixture.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: John Damrell became this city's Inspector of Buildings following an 1872 event in which much of its financial district was destroyed in a fire. On 15 January 1919, twenty-one people were crushed to death or died of asphyxiation in its North End after a (*) storage tank burst and an immense wave of molasses rushed through the streets. A much earlier incident in this city saw five people shot dead outside its custom house, including the black merchant seaman Crispus Attucks. Five years after that event, British troops were defeated in a battle that took place primarily on and around Breed's Hill, located near this city. For 10 points, name this city, the home of John Hancock and Paul Revere, where tea was dumped into the harbour in 1773.

SOLUTION:
History