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: According to one story, this figure founded a city when his efforts in digging up a mushroom revealed a spring. That city was ruled by Electryon and Sthenelus, members of a namesake dynasty he founded. When this ruler was unable to assume the throne of Argos, he traded realms with Megapenthes. This man was sent on a quest by a king of Seriphus named (*) Polydectes during which he stole the tooth and eye of the Graeae. He rescued the daughter of Cassiopea and Cepheus from a sea monster before taking that girl, Andromeda, as his wife. His mother Danae was locked in a tower by King Acrisius to avoid a prophecy, but he was conceived by Zeus in the form a stream of gold. For 10 points, name this hero who used winged sandals and the helmet of invisibility to slay Medusa.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: Aleksandr Benckendorff was charged with hunting them down, and many had been members of the Union of Salvation and the Union of Welfare. Five of them were officially executed including Pavel Pestel who organized the Southern Society and the poet Kondraty Ryelev who hoped that his Northern faction's refusal to support Nicholas I's ascension would spark an uprising that would leave Prince Trubestkoy as dictator. FTP identify this mostly upper-class group of Russian revolutionaries whose 1825 rebellion failed and who are named for the month in which their aborted operations took place.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: His late works include a depiction of a doleful "cottage girl" who holds a pitcher in her right hand and a dog in her left hand, as well as a depiction of Actaeon surprising Diana and her attendants. His early works include the desolate Landscape with Sandpit and a self-portrait with a woman in a voluminous pink dress who is probably his wife. One of his most famous works is set at the Auberies and features an enclosed pasture of grazing sheep, a girl named Frances Mary Carter, and a man wearing a three-cornered hat and holding a rifle. Another of his paintings shows his children Margaret and Mary chasing a butterfly, while he made portraits of William Wollaston, the Duchess of Cumberland, and the Honorable Mrs. Thomas Graham. FTP, name this artist who famously depicted Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews, as well as a notorious boy dressed in blue clothing.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts