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: Protrusions of this substance in the spine are called Schmorl's nodes, and Tietze syndrome occurs when this is inflammed. Its fibro type can be found in symphyses, while the pinna is composed of its elastic type. The hyaline type of this substance is covered by the perichondrium. (*)  Intervertebral discs are made of this substance, which heals slowly due to its lack of blood vessels. Chondrocytes are cells found in this substance, and during endochondral ossification, it is replaced with bone. Patients with osteoarthritis have a loss of this substance, which normally helps lubricate joints. For ten points, name this connective tissue which makes up the human nose and ear.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: As inspiration one commanding officer repeated most of Thomas Grey's famous "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" from memory. Afterwards, Brigadier General Robert Monckton, second in command, led  a force of 4,500 through Anse de Foulon, a lightly protected cove two miles south of the target city. The surprised French elected to attack across the flat terrain anyway, but their line of battle was shattered by a sharp volley from British muskets. Thus, it was actually fought on the Plains of Abraham. FTP, name this fierce 1759 battle that saw the deaths of generals Montcalm and Wolfe outside a Canadian city.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: In a core text of this religion, a dying man tells his visitor to imagine the world as a large furnace and the Creator as a blacksmith. In this religion's cosmology, the heaven and earth combined are represented by the gourd, whereas the human body contains three regions known as "cinnabar fields," including one in the lower abdomen that is depleted of energy any time someone masturbates. One of this religion's texts consists of Inner, Outer, and Mixed Chapters of differing authorship, and includes a bit in which its namesake expresses doubt as to whether he is (*) dreaming of a butterfly or vice versa. Another of its texts begins "The way that can be followed is not the eternal way," and elucidates the principle of action through inaction, or wu wei. For 10 points, name this religion whose precepts are illustrated by the Zhuangzhi and Dao De Jing, which was written by Lao-tzu.

SOLUTION:
Social Science