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.

Q: After losing a contest to this character, Heracles briefly joined the Thiasus, his retinue. Some stories claim he was the son of Persephone and that, at Heras bidding, the Titans ate all of him but his heart, which Zeus put in the womb of his better-known mother. He is sometimes said to be the father of the Graces with Aphrodite, and he fathered Oenopion with Ariadne. Acoetes, the helmsman, was the only one spared when pirates attempted to sell this god into slavery, and he once drove his cousin Pentheus mad, luring him out into the woods where his Maenads tore him apart. For 10 points, identify this son of Semele, the Greek god of inspired madness and wine.

A: Social Science
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Q: This artist executed the Blue series for the Centre Pompidou and Personages and Birds for the Wichita State Art Museum, while a stuffed parrot sits on top of his sculpture simply called Object. A Jan Steen painting influenced the second entry in his Dutch Interiors series, and he created the ceramic murals Wall of the Sun and Wall of the Moon for the UNESCO building. A blackberry jam stain became his Birth of the World, and another work features the multi-colored title animal below the multi-colored title celestial object. For 10 points, name this artist of Dog Barking at the Moon and Harlequin's Carnival, a Catalan surrealist.

A: Fine Arts
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Q: The title character goes by the names Lily and Arlette, but is always loved by Ricardo, in a recent novel by this author. In one of this author's novels, the title entity is shut down after the protagonist shows up to the funeral of Olga the Brazilian. That novel's protagonist cheats on his wife Pochita and supplies ($) prostitutes to army barracks, and is named Pantaleon Pantoja. A man known as "Egghead" lets his young daughter be raped in another of work of his. Euclides da Cunha inspired the character of The (*) Journalist in another of this author's novels, which sees the red-headed phrenology- loving Scotsman Galileo Gall join a rebellion. This author wrote about Urania Cabral and the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo in another novel. For ten points, identify this Peruvian author of The Feast of the Goat and The War of the End of the World.

A:
Literature
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