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 man wrote poetry like the poem "On the Decline of the Church". This man was taken into custody along with Fra Domenico da Pescia and Fra Silvestro, and this man wrote the meditations Tristitia obsedit me and Infelix Ego. This man believed that King Charles VIII of France would prove to be an agent of the Last Days. One of this mans first acts as leader was to make sodomy a capital offense, and while this man was giving a speech on Acension Day, citizens of his city rioted. Picco della Mirandola requested that this man return to Florence, which he did, and he ran the Church of San Marco. For ten points, identify this Dominican Friar, an enemy of Alexander VI who enjoyed burning books and art in events like his Bonfire of the Vanities.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: In one story, this man saved the town of Gubbio by making a pact with an attacking wolf. After spending time as a Perugian captive, he saw a vision of a hall full of cross-marked armor, which encouraged him to travel to Apulia. After 40 days' fasting on the mountain La Verna, he saw a six-winged seraph, after which he received the stigmata, according to his namesake Fioretti. He praised Sister Death, Brother Fire, and Brother Moon in his Canticle of the Sun, and was credited with inventing the Nativity creche scene. For 10 points, identify this Catholic patron saint of animals, the founder of a namesake group whose first two orders are the Poor Clares and the Friars Minor.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: One work for this instrument includes movements titled "The Perilous Shore" and "Put Your Loving Arms Around Me" and was influenced by the death of the composer's father to Alzheimer's. This instrument plays a solo in the third movement of Ottorino Respighi's Pines of Rome. This instrument, which plays the solo in John Adams's Gnarly Buttons, was performed by Woody Herman, who commissioned Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto for this instrument. Other concertos for this instrument include two by (*) Carl Maria von Weber and a jazz-inspired one by Copland. Mozart's concerto for it was written for Anton Stadler. For 10 points, what woodwind instrument that plays the glissando opening in the orchestration of Rhapsody in Blue

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts