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 Idler and The Rambler were two periodicals written by this man, and he popularized the term "Metaphysical Poets" in his series of biographies Lives of the Poets. The title prince travels with his mentor Imlac out of Happy Valley in search of true happiness in this author's prose work, Rasselas, while his greatest accomplishment was an epic of over 115,000 entries, the standard of its type until the creation of the Oxford English version. Author of an 18th-century Dictionary of the English Language, FTP name this British writer whose own biography was written by his one-time companion James Boswell.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: This element's only oxidation state is -1, and it is impossible to free from its compounds by chemical means. It is prepared commercially be the same method which Henri Moisson used to isolate it in 1886, and is also found in the mineral cryolite. Its only isotope is the stabe 19 version, and in its gaseous form takes on a pale yellow color. The most electronegative and reactive of the elements, FTP, what is this lightest of the halogens with atomic number 9 and symbol F

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: Virgil describes a priestess of this goddess named Chloreus who helped drive the Latins out of Rome, and the reception of an image of this figure was celebrated at the Megalensian festival. Zeus could not rape this figure directly and so let his semen fall on her while she was in the form of the Agdos rock. Marsyas was a follower of this figure, whose most famous action was commemorated by the (*) Hilaria in Roman times. Her cult was run by eunuch priests called Corybantes. Her son and consort castrated himself and died after provoking her jealousy, but she resurrected him. According to one legend, this mother of Attis turned Hippomenes and Atalanta into lions for making love in one of her temples. Later assimilated with Rhea, for ten points, name this Phrygian Earth Mother goddess.

SOLUTION:
Social Science