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 work contains two barrel vaults with hexagonal coffers, and the artist appears in it staring directly at the viewer. This painting located across from the La Disputa contains statues of Apollo and Athena flanking the central figures. Unknown figures in this painting may be Bramante and (*) Hypatia. Two men in this painting hold globes, while another man writes on a slab of stone and rests his head on his hand. Another figure in this work lies on some stairs with his leg splayed; that man is Diogenes, who appears with people like Pythagoras and Zeno. For 10 points, the philosophers Aristotle and Plato appear in what fresco painted by Raphael

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: The final ruler of this dynasty severed his daughter's arm in an attempt to kill his entire family during its final days. In one criminal case, this dynasty saw an expansion of the "Nine Exterminations" to also include the killing of friends as well as family members. The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception was founded in this dynasty's capital by one of its advisors, Matteo Ricci. This dynasty dispatched the treasure ships of the admiral Zheng He and moved the empire's capital from Nanking. It was founded by a former leader of the Red Turban rebellion, the Hongwu Emperor. For 10 points, name this Chinese dynasty that made Beijing the capital, succeeded the Mongols, and was itself supplanted by the Manchus in the 1640's.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: This thinker was the subject of ridicule by the newspaper The Corsair, and near the end of his life he attacked the bishop H.L. Martensen in several letters. This author of The Concept of Anxiety presented three forms of despair in his Sickness unto Death, which he wrote under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus. He contrasts the aesthetic and ethical ways of life in his book Either/Or, while another work by him centers on Abraham's decision to sacrifice his son Isaac. For 10 points, name this Danish philosopher of Fear and Trembling.

SOLUTION:
Social Science