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: Together with a Dutchman, this man is the namesake of the reverse of the Barnett effect, and he is also the namesake of a relation that states the diffusion coefficients of ions are proportional to temperature. Together with an Indian scientist, he is the namesake of a type of matter whose behavior is governed by the GrossPitaevskii equation, and a statistics for determining the distribution of bosons. He won the Nobel Prize for the law of the photoelectric effect, which he discovered in his spare time while working in the Swiss patent office. FTP name this scientist who formulated the theory of relativity and proposed that E equals mc squared.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: Lindstrom's theorem states that first-order logic is the strongest logic having both this property and satisfying the Lowenheim-Skolem property. A method for finding a Hausdorff space with this property containing a given space is named for Stone and Cech. Equicontinuity is the main condition for determining whether a family of functions has this property by the Arzela-Ascoli theorem. Using the axiom of choice, it can be shown that an arbitrary product of spaces with this property has this property, a result known as Tychonoff's theorem. In Euclidean space, being closed and bounded is sufficient to show, according to the Heine-Borel theorem, that a set has this property. For 10 points, identify this property which holds of a set on which every open cover has a finite subcover.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: This author wrote novels in which a soldier returns from war and founds a "Church Without Christ" and one in which a boy tries to escape from his destiny as a prophet, with hallucinations and all. In a collection of this author's short prose, the titular story concerns Julian watching his mother suffer a stroke after stepping off a bus on her way to the YMCA. In another tale from the same collection, a woman is attacked in the waiting room at her doctor's office and interprets her assailant's words as a sign from God. Name this author of Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away, who also wrote, for 10 points, "Everything That Rises Must Converge" and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"

SOLUTION:
Literature