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: During this dynasty, painting and sculpture flourished, as seen in the production of its famous eponymous horses. Buddhism was suppressed and monasteries dissolved during the Hu-chiang period, while its greatest territorial expansions occurred under Hsuan Tsung, whose ambitions were finally checked by the Arabs at the Talas River. Great decline occurred after the An Lu-Shan rebellion, which served as subject material for its great poets, including Tu Fu and Li Po. FTP, what was this 618-907 Chinese dynasty whose name is now associated with astronauts

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: Sliding wooden walls are seen in this man's Hanna-Honeycomb House, while a copper roof and hexagonal skylights are found in his Kentuck Knob. This artist had a carport in his Rosenbaum House, which exemplified his Usonian design. One of his more famous buildings survived a 1923 (*) earthquake, and utilizes the "Maya-Revival" style. That work is the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, and this architect's Robie House exemplifies his Prairie Style. For ten points, name this architect of the Guggenheim Museum in New York and of Edgar Kaufmann's house over Bear Run River, Fallingwater.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: In 2006, members of the Kaingang ethnic group in this country who threatened to blow up a hydroelectric plant were finally compensated for the use of their land, while in 1988, the federal government of this country brought charges of genocide against five men who had murdered members of the Xacriaba ethnic group in an attempt to exterminate them. The Kuikuro and the Kalapalo are the most numerous ethnic groups represented in this country's Xingu National Park, which was established on behalf of indigenous peoples by Cndido Rondon. In 1992, this country, which has more un-contacted ethnic groups than any other, opened a special reservation for the Yanomami to keep out gold prospectors who were taking their land. Indigenous groups in this country comprise a sizeable population in such states as Acre, Roraima, and Par. FTP, identify this South American country that has indigenous or mestizo majorities in such cities as Belm and Manaus.

SOLUTION:
History