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: While a man in this play reads the newspaper, he says that Mary Splatt has just had a baby girl, prompting his wife to declare she'd much rather have a boy. One woman in this play seems confused that her husband goes out at the same time every day, but it's only dark out some days, until he explains that the sun comes up later in winter. This play opens with one character repeatedly asking ($) "Is that you" before giving a man some cornflakes. During a game of blind man's bluff during this play, one man gets his glasses broken, prompting him to get angry and try to (*) rape Lulu. That man denies that the title event is for him despite receiving a drum at the end of Act I, and he is eventually carted away by Goldberg and McCann. For ten points, identify this play set at Meg and Petey's boarding house, the title event of which celebrates Stanley Webber, a work by Harold Pinter.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: Home to the last Barbary Macaque population in the whole of Europe, it joined the EU in 1973, but is a continuing source of diplomatic rows between two of its member states, also because of its role as an international tax haven. Its current status dates back to the 1713 treaty of Utrecht. During the Second World War, the German army devised the Operation Felix to capture this site that acted as an important and strategic British garrison and stronghold, but abandoned it subsequently. Its name is supposed to be derived from Arabic, meaning mountain of Tariq, and in Greco-roman mythology, it was known as one of the Pillars of Hercules. FTP, what is this site, famous for its rock, controlling the entry to the Mediterranean

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: The Committees of Vigilance organized in this location were later broken up voluntarily after self-declared success, and the Tower of Jewels was built here to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal. Charles Ellis is attributed with pushing through the construction of one landmark in this city, where Emperor Norton once reigned. Hetch Hetchy Valley was flooded as a result of a project to provide water for this city following one event, and many mansions used to exist on its Nob Hill district. It was where the UN Charter was signed. For 10 points, identify this city rebuilt after a 1906 fire and home to a bright orange structure, the Golden Gate Bridge.

SOLUTION:
History