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 speaker of one work by this author observes the "little promontory" on which the titular creature stood. In one of his works, a boy is brought to tears by the "he-birds" calls for his lost mate, and repeatedly makes out the word "death" from the rustling of the ocean. The speaker of another of his poems declares that he sees the "clouds of the west" and the "flood tide below [him]" face to face, while the speaker of his most famous work states that "what [he] assumes, you shall assume" after proclaiming that he celebrates himself. For 10 points, name this American poet whose poems "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" and "Song of Myself" appear in Leaves of Grass.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: This work is thought to have been commissioned to replace a lost work on a similar topic by Lorenzo Di Medici. Some of the flora depicted in this work include cattails in the lower left corner and pink flowers falling down next to the central figure. (*) Horae waits behind the title figure and throws a pink cloth over her, while another figure, Zephyr, blows wind behind her to propel her towards shore. For 10 points, identify this work in which the title goddess stands upon a shell in the ocean, a painting by Sandro Botticelli.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: Using the X-ray telescopes Suzaku and XMM-Newton, scientists in 2012 detected the quasiperiodic oscillation associated with the increase in mass of one of these objects. Roy Kerr and Ted Newman solved general relativity equations to describe the behavior of these objects when they have angular momentum. A supermassive one at Sagittarius A is believed to be the center of the Milky Way galaxy. David Finkelstein demonstrated mathematically that these are surrounded by a region that, to an outside observer, can never be reached. The distance from the center of these objects to that region is named for Karl Schwarzschild, and that region is called the event horizon. Name these objects which may emit Hawking radiation but otherwise do not allow anything to escape, not even light.

SOLUTION:
Science