TASK DEFINITION: You will be given a trivia clue, and the category it belongs to. You should answer with the best answer that belongs in the category and is described by the clue. For simplicity, answers should be in all lower cased letters.
PROBLEM: Category: CHOOSE A "CIDE" 
Clue: Final act of playwrights Seneca & von Kleist

SOLUTION: suicide

PROBLEM: Category: WOMEN WRITERS 
Clue: A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, her "Black and Blue" was selected for Oprah's Book Club in 1998

SOLUTION: anna quindlen

PROBLEM: Category: BIOPICS 
Clue: In 1938 Gary Cooper discovered spaghetti & gunpowder as this adventurer in the East

SOLUTION:
marco polo