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 definitive study on this engagement was authored by Hugh Cole, who devotes a section to discussing the Losheim Gap. It also stresses the importance of the oft-overlooked Operation Bodenplatte carried out on a holiday and alternately known as Operation Hermann. The clash saw the murder of the Wereth 11, a group of waylaid black soldiers, and courageous stands at St. Vith and Bastogne, which turned the fight and made up for failure to garner intelligence through ULTRA. Anthony McAuliffe became famous for his reply of "Nuts" and Patton for his diary statement that it was "lovely weather for killing Germans. " FTP, name this final German offensive of World War II also known as the Battle of the Ardennes.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: author claimed that there is no right to hold a bird of prey accountable for being a bird of prey. Ernst Haeckel latched onto this philosopher's idea of the "world riddle. " A renowned translator and interpreter of this philosopher's works was Walter Kaufman. This thinker chastised his prior love of Wagner in an "attempt at self-criticism" appended to a work in which he contrasted the Dionysian and Apollonian aspects of the title art form. He described the "blond beast" in his treatment of ethics, On the Genealogy of Morals. For 10 points, name this philosopher who proclaimed "God is Dead" in The Gay Science and wrote The Birth of Tragedy.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: In a painting by this artist inspired by a James Thomson poem, a fishing platform is visible in the foreground while men and cupids throng around the title water feature. This painter of The Fountain of Indolence depicted two indistinct pink swirls next to some crosshatches that the Tate theorizes make up a fishing net in another work. Another painting by this artist captures the last moments of a ghostly (*) vessel that had fought in the Battle of Trafalgar as she is "tugged to her last berth." This painter of Sunrise with Sea Monsters showed manacled limbs emerging from the water as the Zong prepares for a typhoon in one painting, and depicted an obscured black train hurtling across the Maidenhead bridge in another. For 10 points, name this English artist of The Fighting Temeraire, The Slave Ship, and Rain, Steam and Speed.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts