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: Its main character is a hopeless stutterer, taunted by his schoolmates, who eventually becomes an acolyte at a famous temple. However, he becomes obsessed with its beauty, and cannot live in peace until he burns it down. For 10 points, name this novel about Mizoguchi, which is based upon actual events that took place at the Kinkakuji Temple in Kyoto in 1950 and which was written by Yukio Mishima.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: Early in his career he was forced to share power with John Carteret, but was eventually able to force his resignation. He spent time in jail for graft during a period of Tory ascendancy, but was most popular for his economic policies, including his establishment of the sinking fund to reduce the national debt, which he had also addressed with his resolution of the South Sea Bubble crisis. However, he was forced from office due to British failures in the early stages of the War of the Austrian Succession. FTP, who was this first official Prime Minister of Britain

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: He created a system of military rule by major generals, and his French alliance ended up giving his country Dunkirk. This ruler, whose death was called for in the pamphlet "Killing no Murder", was given his highest position by a document drafted by James Lambert and based partly on the "Heads of Proposals". This leader passed the Penal Laws during a campaign in which he gave no quarter to the defeated garrison of (*) Drogheda; that campaign was his invasion of Ireland. He carried out a purge of the Rump Parliament to create the Barebones Parliament. This leader was disinterred and posthumously beheaded for his part in a war during which he served under Lord Fairfax. His son was so incompetent that Parliament voted to restore Charles II. For 10  points, name this Puritan general of the New Model Army and Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England.

SOLUTION:
History