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: A comic argument in this play turns on whether an available sofa was yellow or green. An attempted seduction goes awry when a woman reveals she is wearing clothes in mourning, but her seducer suggests she just take off her dress. A procurer leaves because she is scandalized by the presence of the mother of one of her former prostitutes. In addition to Madame Pace, other characters include one found dead in the fountain, the Girl, and the Boy, whose death from a mysterious gunshot causes the remaining figures to argue with the director over whether he's really dead or just pretending. FTP, name this play about the unnamed title figures who interrupt a rehearsal, a work by Luigi Pirandello.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: He proudly labeled the territorial acquisitions he engineered the "epocha," and he proposed a compromise solution to the slavery question, which would allow Florida to enter the union as a slave state but free all children born after 1842. He received the only electoral vote not to go to James Monroe in 1820, and he later nominated his Treasury Secretary Richard Rush as his new Vice-Presidential candidate in his re-election campaign after his former understudy bolted to his opponent's ticket. Later, he presented up to twenty antislavery petitions a year in Congress in defiance of the gag rules. He was the chief U.S. negotiator for the Treaty of Ghent, the defender of the Amistad slaves, and the formulator of the Monroe Doctrine as Secretary of State, but he may be best known for the backroom dealing which defeated Andrew Jackson for this man's one successful national election in 1824. FTP, name this man who won the White House under the "corrupt bargain. "

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: For a dilute gas, this quantity is proportional to the square root of the product of mass and temperature, divided by collision diameter squared times the collision integral. This quantity scales from a reference temperature, for an ideal gas, as the square root of temperature. Those results are the Chapman-Enskog equation and Sutherland's formula. This quantity varies over time in thixotropic materials and with applied shear in shear-thinning materials. This quantity, the ratio of shear stress to shear velocity, is zero for Newtonian fluids, and superfluidity occurs when this quantity is zero. For 10 points, name this property of fluids, which measures resistance to flow

SOLUTION:
Science