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.
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Question: The theory in which these particles appear is an SU(3) gauge theory, and particles composed only of them are predicted to exist, but the only candidate known, f(1710), decays too quickly into K-mesons. During the first ten microseconds after the Big Bang, the state of matter where hadrons are decomposed that was said to have formed is known as a plasma of quarks and these particles. A vector gauge boson of spin 1, they have only two polarization states and have eight independent types, and although their exchange results in a change of color, the quarks maintains the balance of color. Carriers of the strong nuclear force, these are, FTP, which subatomic particles that cause quarks to interact and thus the binding of protons and neutrons in nuclei

Answer: Science


Question: poem by this author describes a wall inscribed with the phrase "PARAS THIRTEEN, BOGSIDE NIL" and is an elegy for a man who "drank like a fish" before he was "blown to bits. " He included the image of a "four foot box, a foot for every year" in a poem narrated by a student who "sat all morning in the college sick bay counting bells knelling classes to a close. " This author of "Casualty" wrote of a student of Miss Walls who collects "jampotfulls" of (*) "frogspawn" in another poem. He wrote that "my squat pen rests" "between my finger and my thumb" in a poem that compares his profession to his father's labor in the bogs. For 10 points, name this poet who included "Mid-Term Break" and "Digging" in his collection The Death of a Naturalist, an Irish Nobel winner who translated Beowulf.

Answer: Literature


Question: One of this mans stories concerns a false prophet who blinds all the women in his harem so they cant see that he is afflicted with leprosy. That tale of Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv joins Man on Pink Corner and several other stories in his collection A Universal History of Infamy. In addition to Tlon, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius, this author wrote about a Frenchman who sets out to recreate Cervantess masterpiece, and a story set in an infinite array of hexagonal rooms lined with bookshelves. For ten points, name this author whose stories Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote and The Library of Babel can be found in the collection Ficciones.

Answer:
Literature