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.

These objects contain the zone of plastic flow and the zone of brittle flow. They are formed by compressing firn, and parts of them break off by calving. Till is soil left behind by these objects, which also push material to form moraines. Cirques (SERKS) and fjords (FYORDS) are among the landforms due to erosion by these objects. For 10 points, name these moving masses of land ice.
Science

Erwin Finlay-Freundlich proposed one explanation for this phenomenon that claimed its strength should be proportional to the radiation density. A version of this phenomenon in the CMB is known as the Sachs-Wolfe effect, while the quantity that describes the strength of this effect has a value of about 1100 for the surface of last scattering. One version of this effect was measured using the Mossbauer effect in an experiment by Pound and Rebka, and the magnitude of this effect is usually denoted "z. " For 10 points, name this phenomenon, which can be caused by gravity or the Doppler effect, in which the wavelength of an object's light appears longer to an observer.
Science

This man's daughter Theodosia mysteriously disappeared on the ship Patriot. This man was criticized in a letter penned by Charles Cooper to Philip Schuyler. In one campaign, this man lost a governorship to Morgan Lewis, who received support from the head of a rival party. This man founded the Bank of the Manhattan Company and helped start the political machine of the Tammany Society. In the election of 1800, this man tied Thomas Jefferson with 73 electoral votes, although the House of Representatives decided against him. This man was eventually betrayed by associate James Wilkinson and was arrested on charges of plotting to invade Spanish territories with a private army. For 10 points, name this Vice-President who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.

History

