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: proteins bind one end of these structures and help inhibit a process called "catastrophe. " These structures can have persistence lengths of 3-4 mm, which is several orders of magnitude higher than the average cellular diameter. These structures can be severed by katanin. Drugs such as paclitaxel stabilize these structures and prevent their depolymerization, where colchicine prevents its dimeric subunits from coming together. Shortening of these structure at the kinetochore ends of the spindle apparatus helps chromosomes walk towards poles during mitosis and meiosis. For 10 points, identify these structures which are components of the cytoskeleton and which are made of tubulin proteins.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: After watching a boxing match between two angry dwarves, Dan Moore yells Jesus was once a leper! in one story in this collection. In addition to Box Seat, it includes stories about Esther, who loves the mystic King Barlo, and Becky, who is shunned for bearing mulatto sons. Another story in it describes Seventh Street, which infuses black reddish blood into the white and whitewashed wood of Washington, and a white mob burns Tom Burwell alive for killing Bob Stone in its story Blood-Burning Moon. Its authors time in rural Georgia inspired its final section, Kabnis. Beginning with a story describing the beauty of Karintha and a poem about the Black Reapers of the title plant, FTP, name this modernist collection of short stories and poems by Jean Toomer.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: This man's wet-nurse, Caieta, was buried along a beach in Hesperia. He gave refuge to Anna Perenna, the sister of his former lover. This man's companions included Cloanthus and Ilioneus. His opponents included Menzentius and Queen Camilla in a war occurring because this man was promised the hand of Lavinia, a daughter of Latinus whose suitors included this man's enemy in that war, a Rutulian named Turnus. This man went to the Sybil of Cumae to see his father Anchises in the underworld, which he accomplished with the aid of the golden bough. He may be more famous for an affair that saw a queen throw herself upon a pyre after this man left Carthage for good. For 10 points, name this father of Ascanius who fled Troy to found Rome, falling in love with Dido along the way.

SOLUTION:
Social Science