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 version of spectroscopy that is free of one form of this effect uses a standing wave to give radiation to a moving atom and is named for its two-photon transition. Due to this effect, atoms observe laser resonance leading to the phenomenon of optical molasses at its namesake cooling limit. Mossbauer spectroscopy uses this effect to modulate the energy of the incident gamma rays. An experiment that used a canal ray tube and a mirror to view light emissions was used to detect the transverse form of this effect, while its relativistic form involves changes equal to the square root of one plus beta over one minus beta. For 10 points, name this shift in the wavelength from a moving source that can be heard by an observer.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: In the aria Mal reggendo, one character in this opera relates how a strange voice stopped his hand from killing his opponent in a duel in Act 1. The arias Di due figli and Abbietta zingara are used by one character to narrate a ghost story to a gathering which is dispersed by the ringing of a bell. In Prima che d'altri vivere, the protagonist bids farewell to his lover after she poisons herself. After the first act in which Ferrando conjures the image of a baby burnt alive on a pyre, Chi del gitano i giorni abbella, or the Anvil Chorus, is sung by a group of gypsies. After the death of Leonora, the mother of Azucena is avenged when Count di Luna orders the execution of the title character Manrico. FTP, name this opera by Giuseppe Verdi.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: Roger Casement tried to bring guns to rebels in this country led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly during Easter. The movement for independence in this country included leaders such as Eamon de Valera (AY-mun dev-uh-LAIR-uh), Charles Parnell, and Michael Collins. This country is home to the parties Fianna Fail (FEE-en-uh FOIL) and Sinn Fein (shin fayn). For 10 points, name this island country that with a northern neighbor that is a part of the United Kingdom, which was also the site in the middle of the nineteenth century of a potato famine.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts