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 achieved full power within his party at the Zunyi Conference. That conference occurred while this man and other members of his party were traveling from Jiangxi (jee-AHNG-shee) to Yanan as part of the Long March. This leader's third wife was part of an influential group that was named the Gang of Four. This ruler was responsible for his country taking part in the (*) Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. For 10 points, name this political rival of Chiang Kai-shek who was the first leader of Communist China.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: The name of one character created by this author was used as a pseudonym by Charles P. Jacobs in a letter accusing Thomas Hardy of plagiarism. That character is introduced as a half-drowned body being carried into the Black Lion Inn. In addition to Timothy Crabshaw, this author wrote of a figure who tries to seduce Monimia by throwing Count Melvil under the bus, and about Tom Bowlings service on the HMS Thunder. This author of Launcelot Greaves and Ferdinand, Count Fathom wrote a novel in which Thomas Pipes is sent by Commodore Trunion to help a man who eventually marries Emilia Gauntlet, and another Lydia Melford and Letitia Lewis carry on a similar friendship through letters as Dr. Richard Lewis does with Matthew Bramble. For 10 points, name this author of Peregrine Pickle, Roderick Random, and Humphrey Clinker.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: He wrote the lines, "All along the valley, while I walked today, the two and thirty years were a mist that rolls away" in one poem, while another poem by this author begins, "I had a vision when the night was late: a youth came riding toward a palace-gate". In addition to "In the Valley of Cauteretz" and "Vision of Sin", this author wrote, "Now folds the lily all her sweetness up" and "Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost" in one poem, and discussed how "the wind is raving in turret and tree" in one work which also describes how "the earl was fair to see" before being stabbed to death. This author of "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal" and "The Sister's Shame" wrote a more well-known work which claims that "all experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untraveled world" and describes "an idle king" who has "drunk delight of battle with [his] peers" before ending with the line, "to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield". For 10 pointsname this author of "Ulysses" who described the death of a certain six hundred in the "Valley of Death" in his "Charge of the Light Brigade".

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts