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: 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: After he lost a gubernatorial election to Pat Brown, this man told reporters they wouldn't have him to "kick around anymore." His presidency saw the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency, and he was elevated to national prominence by his role in the Alger Hiss case. His Secretary of State (*) Henry Kissinger initiated Detente (day-TAHNT) and he signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile and first SALT treaties with the Soviet Union. His visit to the People's Republic of China opened diplomatic relations between it and the United States. For ten points, name this 37th President of the United States who resigned in the wake of the Watergate Scandal.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: This politician espoused Social Darwinism in The Cult of Weakness. This politician was appointed as the fifth US Ambassador to West Germany and had worked with Paul van Zeeland as the first Director-General of the Atlantic Institute. This politician also escorted Nikita Khrushchev while serving as the third US Ambassador to the UN. This politician sent Cable 243 in response to the Xa Loi Pagoda raids while serving as the sixth US Ambassador to South Vietnam. In a 1936 Senate election, this politician defeated Governor James Michael Curley but this senator would later be defeated by (*) John F. Kennedy in the 1952 senate election in Massachusetts. He was again defeated by JFK in the 1960 presidential election as Richard Nixon's running mate. For 10 points, name this grandson of a former Massachusetts Senator who had opposed the League of Nations.

SOLUTION:
History