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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.
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The acceleration named for this person can take place when particles repeatedly cross the shock front caused by a supernova. The type of gas named for this person exerts pressure even at absolute zero. This person and Paul Dirac worked out the statistical distribution of particles that obey the Pauli Exclusion Principle, which is why such particles are named for this person. Those particles, which have non-integer spins, are contrasted with particles named for Satyendra Nath Bose. Name this Italian American who created Chicago Pile-1 in 1942, the first man-made nuclear chain reaction.
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Science

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As Secretary of State, he sent a paperweight in the shape of a plowshare to everyone with whom he negotiated a treaty. His "thirty treaties" were discussed in his "A Message from Bethlehem," in an attempt to end war for all time. His opposition in a presidential election printed notes with his face and the phrase "In God we Trust . . . for the other 53 cents. " This politician's platform, however, as expressed in his 1896 convention speech got him the nomination to go against the Republican candidate, with running mates Thomas Watson and Arthur Sewall. For 10 points, name this orator who was the Democratic and Progressive candidate for the 1896 election and famously railed against a "cross of gold".
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History

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This author outlined four "victim positions" characteristic of a certain country's literature in Survival. In a novel by this author, Simon Jordan investigates the title character, who was institutionalized after allegedly murdering her employer Thomas Kinnear. Newspaper clippings and excerpts from a fictional pulp novel about the planet Zycron punctuate a novel by this author about Alex Thomas, Richard (*) Griffen, and Iris and Laura Chase. This author of Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin penned a novel set in the theocratic Republic of Gilead, in which increasing sterility causes men like the Commander to employ concubines like Offred, the title character. For 10 points, name this female Canadian author of The Handmaid's Tale.
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Literature