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: Notable translators of it include Alexander Heidel, who rendered all the dirty passages into Latin, and John Gardner. The characters include Siduri "whose drinks refresh the soul" and Ninsun the title character's mother, who interprets many of this dreams. Often known by its first line "He who saw everything," in the latter part of the work the hero encounters talking scorpions who allow him to ascend Mount Mashu and a snake who steals the plant of eternal life which Utnapishtam had told him of. Earlier the hero slew Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven with his friend Enkidu. For 10 points - identify this Babylonian poem about a king of Uruk.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: His reign saw both the publication of the legal treatise Quadripartitus and the earliest surviving European kingdom-wide financial survey, and the exchequer originated at Winchester at the behest of his minister Roger of Salisbury. He fined William de Mandeville for allowing the escape of Ranulf Flambard from the Tower of London, and he had earlier ceded custody of Cotenin to his brother Robert Curthose to avoid war. The wreck of the White Ship resulted in the death of his only legitimate heir, William theling, and his childless marriage to Adeliza of Louvain resulted in his succession by Stephen of Blois. For 10 points, name this man who won the lordship of Normandy in the battle of Tinchebrai, king of England from 1100 to 1135 and the first Norman ruler not named William.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: This man was made Prince of Benevento by a ruler who would later call him a "silk stocking full of shit" in front of his generals. Upon Ferdinand's forced surrender and abdication at Bayonne, he and his family were forced to this man's chateau at Valencay. The namesake of a partition plan of Poland, he was appointed as a bishop of Autun, although he would repudiate that role after his excommunication. This man had been providing advice to Alexander I after the Treaty of Tilsit, betraying a man he had helped to power in the 18th Brumaire coup. This man's tendency to demand bribes for his services nearly provoked war with the United States in the XYZ affair. For 10 points, name this duplicitous and talented diplomat under Napoleon who represented France at the Congress of Vienna.

SOLUTION:
History