Part 1. 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.
Part 2. Example
In one work this author details the life of a tomb-maker who makes extra money by playing the organ at an insane asylum, while another of his novels sees Swartz give a refugee proper documentation only after he tells him his life story in the title Portuguese city. In addition to The Black Obelisk and The Night in Lisbon, he also wrote about Robert and Otto selling their auto workshop and visiting Patrice in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium in his novel The Three Comrades, while the turbulent life of the German surgeon Ravic is told in The Arch of Triumph. Another of his novels, The Road Back, is thought to be a sequel to his most famous book, in which the patriotic teacher Kantorek convinces Paul Bumer and his friends to join the Germany Army during World War I. For 10 points, name this German author who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front.
Answer: Literature
Explanation: The text is talking about an author and their works, so it belongs to theliterature category.
Part 3. Exercise
One resident of this city condemned wayward wives for making their husbands impotent by baking bread from wheat and honey smeared on the wives' naked bodies; that passage is contained in the Corrector sive Medicus, the 19th volume in a collection of 20 books on church government written by Burchard, an 11th century bishop of this city. An agreement reached in this city provided for the reception of the regalia "through the sceptre"; that agreement reached between Callixtus II and emperor Henry V was the 1122 concordat of this city that brought a halt to the investiture controversy. In the Nibelungenlied, this city is the location of the Burgundian court. Along with Speyer and Mainz, it is home one of the three imperial cathedrals of the Rhineland. In a later meeting at this city, Johann Eck, assistant to the Archbishop of Trier, asked a question which drew the response "my conscience is captive to the word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything." For 10 points, what German city was visited by Charles V and Martin Luther during a 1521 Diet
Answer:
History