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: Pausanias claims that one member of this profession, an Euboean son of Crius,  is the source of an alternative tradition for the name of Pythos. In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Demeter pretends to be Dosos, a person wronged by people in this profession. According to Apollodorus, a mistaken belief that Catreus was one of these people led his son Althaemenes to unknowingly slay him. Its not swineherding, but Eumaeus was in Sidon when these people took him to (*) Ithaca. One person demanded the right to sing one last song from some of these people and ended up being rescued from them by the dolphins that he attracted; that man was Arion. Dionysus turned some Tyrrhenian people in this profession into dolphins after using vines to fill up their boat. For 10 points, name these people who often appear in children's stories making their captives walk the plank.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: Published under the pseudonym Johaness de Silentio, this work is believed by analysts to have two distinct themes. First is the "teleological suspension of the ethical," an example of which is God's order that Abraham kill Isaac. From there the author uses the Abraham/Isaac story to come to terms with the end of his love affair with Regine Olsen. The overall story, then, concerns a contrast between the "tragic hero" and the "knight of faith. "  FTP, name this 1843 philosophical work by Soren Kierkegaard. 				

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: Members of this phylum possess gelatinous mesohyl regions through which food-collecting amoebocytes travel. Most are hermaphrodites, lack nerves and muscles, and were not regarded as animals until the eighteenth century. Water flows through the osculum in and out of the central cavity, called the spongocoel. FTP, identify this invertebrate phylum which includes the sponges.

SOLUTION:
Science