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: The reciprocal relationship between the eigenvalues of the mass matrix of these particles is called the "seesaw mechanism"; the larger eigenvalue may be the mass of their "sterile" variety. One phenomenon predicted by Pontecorvo involving these entities was searched for by (*) MINOS. Reines and Cowan used an aqueous cadmium chloride solution to detect them, and other detectors tend to include large volumes of material, such as Super Kamiokande. For 10 points, name these leptons, the nearly massless products of radioactive decay whose varieties include the muon and tau and which are represented by the letter nu.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: This writer began one poem describing the ""various language"" with which Nature speaks to those who hold ""Communion with her visible forms. "" One of this author's poems asks the title creature why ""dost thou pursue thy solitary way"" In another poem, this author instructed the reader ""go not, like the quarry slave at night,"" instead urging the reader to ""[lie] down to pleasant dreams. "" For 10 points, name this long-time New York Evening Post editor who wrote ""To A Waterfall"" and ""Thanatopsis,"" an early American poet.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: One of his works includes a crescent-shaped structure with 40 aisles in each of 3 levels in the Yorktown Heights building, an d he designed the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra which was initially founded as the Berkshire Music Center. In addition to the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and the Tanglewood Music Center, the colloquially named "Jetsons Lounge" is included in his work for Vassar College; that work is the (*) Noyes House. However, he is probably best known for a work done in collaboration with Hannskarl Bandel which features egg-shaped trams which travel through half of the catenary-shaped structure. For 10 points, identify this architect of the Gateway Arch.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts