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: Japan's Chikyu Hakken is trying to reach this region, and n-waves travel along its upper boundary. Post-perovskite forms in the bottommost part of this region, the D double prime layer. P-waves slow down and S-waves disappear past the bottom of this region, and its top features a P-wave velocity jump from approximately seven to approximately eight kilometers per second. The low velocity zone of the asthenosphere is found in the upper part of this region. It is sandwiched between the Gutenburg discontinuity and the Moho, and this layer's namesake plumes form hotspots. For 10 points, name this layer of the earth between the crust and the core.

A: Science
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Q: This author wrote about a girl who refuses to throw away a chicken sandwich in "Just Before the War With the Eskimos. " Another work by this author features a boy with "rickets in one leg and elephantiasis in other" fishing next to a "No Fishing! " sign while in Montreal. "The Chief" tells members of the "Comanche Club" a story about a deformed criminal named the "Laughing Man" in one of his works. Another work by this man sees the central character chat with Sibyl on the beach before shooting himself in the head. For 10 points, name this creator of Seymour Glass in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," who wrote about Holden in The Catcher in the Rye.

A: Literature
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Q: A 1908 plot to poison a garrison of colonial troops from this country was unraveled when one of the conspirators went to confession. Along with the Spanish, this country's military lost the 1858 Siege of Tourane after its alliance with Gia Long unraveled, and this country's army brutally suppressed a 1930 mutiny in Yen Bai led by the VNQDD, as it had a 1916 uprising in Cochinchina. Missionaries from this country were successful in converting many residents in such cities as (*) Da Nang and Hue to Catholicism, but this country had to recognize the independence of several of its colonies at the 1954 Geneva Conference after it was defeated in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. For 10 points, name this European country that colonized Laos and Vietnam.

A:
History
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