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 tree can be seen in the background of this work through a window bisected by a stone column. Beneath the window lies a series of chests, one of which is being searched through by a child in white. The childs caretaker, carrying a large gold and blue garment, looks after the child while on the right a small brown and white dog sleeps peacefully on a couch. Tapestries line the walls near the chests and green and beige tiles line the floor, and a green curtain obscures the back left portion of the room. On a red couch in front of the curtain rests the title character, who holds pink flowers in her hand as she stares at the viewer. For 10 points, name this painting by Titian.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: This ruler established a code which mandated that pavilions be owned by only one family and ordered the execution of the Duke of Biron partially for conspiring with Savoy, which was forced to surrender Bresse to him by the Treaty of Lyons. His other less known diplomacy includes sending the Duke of Mercoeur to sign the Peace of Vervins. His mistresses included Gabrielle dEstre, and he won major military victories at Arques and Ivry. His main advisor Maximilien de Bethune, the Duke of Sully, reformed the paulette and he was succeeded by his son by Marie de Medici, Louis XIII. FTP, name this French king who declared that Paris was worth a mass and signed the Edict of Nantes as the first Bourbon.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: In one play by this author, three characters in large urns talk deliver rapid-fire monologues about a love affair. In another, the only part of the stage which is illuminated is the mouth of a character who describes events from her life. In one play, he wrote about two legless characters who live in trash cans, Nagg and Nell, who are the parents of the blind old man Hamm. Another character created by this author is addicted to bananas and listens to recordings of himself on his sixth-ninth birthday. His most famous work sees Pozzo command his slave Lucky to dance in order to entertain Vladimir and Estragon. For 10 points, name this Irish playwright of Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape, and Waiting for Godot.

SOLUTION:
Literature