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: This author wrote about Octave de Malivert's love with the title character in Armance, and also published a story collection called the Italian Chronicles. This man also wrote about a resident of Lake Como who attempts to join Napoleon's army before that man, Fabrizio del Dongo, ultimately retires to the titular residence. In addition to The (*) Charterhouse of Parma, this man wrote a novel whose protagonist is sentenced to death after shooting at Madame de Renal. For 10 points, name this French author who created Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: Wolfgang Kapp's coup was stopped in this city after a general strike. A meeting at this location gave Cyprus to the British, while another meeting here concluded with a General Act that established the Congo as private property. The Glienicke Bridge just outside this city was used to conduct several spy exchanges. Three corridors were used to access this city during one event here, where Operation Little Vittles was conducted. Checkpoint Charlie in this city was a famous part of a structure built here under orders from Walter Ulbricht. For 10 points, identify this capital of the Hohenzollern family of Prussia, split into 4 occupation zones following World War II.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: This instrument is featured along with the piano in "Praise to the Eternity of Jesus," part of the Quartet for the End of Time. Like a larger instrument in the same family, this instrument often uses a wolf tone eliminator. A concerto in E minor for this instrument was written by Edward Elgar and famously played by (*) Jacqueline du Pre. Bach wrote six suites for this instrument which plays accompanied by pianos in the Swan movement of The Carnival of the Animals. Pablo Casals and Mstislav [MIST-ih-slav] Rostropovich play, for 10 points, what string instrument which is smaller than a double bass yet larger than a viola

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts