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 member of the Alcmaeonid family he was born under a family curse incited by his great-grandfather. Peisistratus exiled him and his family, but he returned twenty years later, and during the reign of Hippias convinced the Delphic oracle to tell Sparta to help overthrow the tyranny. Gaining power in 510, he broke the traditional aristocracy, instituting a system of the ten tribes of Attica.. FTP, identify this Athenian tyrant who created the council of 500 in order to favor equal rights for all citizens.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: A recent mass death of puffins off this nation's coast has mirrored a similar dead bird event in Arkansas. In the aftermath of one recent crisis in this nation, Edison Pena was invited to (*) Graceland to celebrate Elvis's 76th birthday, but that man and his fellows are better-known for being the subject of a rescue mission based at the tent city Camp Hope. For 10 points, name this nation that recently saw thirty-three miners emerge safely from underground after being trapped for 69 days, whose rescue capsule from that incident now resides in Santiago.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: The first two nominees to investigate this event were Silas Strawn and Thomas Gregory, but their names were withdrawn. Later, a team of Pomerene and Roberts were appointed to investigate this event, which led to the Supreme Court case of McGrain v. Daugherty. The initial Senate investigation was led by Thomas Walsh. People involved in this affair were Edward Doheny, who escaped criminal prosecution, and Harry Sinclair. One person implicated was Edwin Denby, the Secretary of the Navy, and this event partially involved land in Elk Hills, California. FTP, name this scandal that led to the jailing of Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, which involved the leasing of oil fields in Wyoming, and was the chief scandal of the Harding administration.

SOLUTION:
History