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.

[EX Q]: Category: LITERATURE 
Clue: Northumbria in the "Age of Bede" or Mercia in Offa's reign are guesses as to where & when this work was created
[EX A]: beowulf

[EX Q]: Category: AMERICANISMS 
Clue: Around 1900 Monroe Rosenfeld remarked that the music heard along NYC's 28th Street sounded like this
[EX A]: tin pans

[EX Q]: Category: OLYMPIC HISTORY 
Clue: This event was inspired by a legend mentioned in Plutarch's "On the Glory of Athens"
[EX A]:
the marathon