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: reality program Murder in Small Town X was set in this state. The possibly first American Indian professional baseball player, "Chief" Sockalexis, was born in this state, while another resident of this state asked "Are you going to vote to have a war or not" to Yuri Andropov. That resident was the schoolgirl Samantha Smith. A film featuring Betty White as the vulgar Mrs. Bickerman and involving killer crocodiles is not set in New York's Lake Placid, but actually in this state. This state is home to such fictional residents as Sheriff Mort Metzger and Dr. Seth Hazlitt, who assist Jessica Fletcher in solving mysteries, while a medical doctor named Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce is also from this state. Featuring such fictional cities as Cabot Cove and Crabapple Cove, this state is also the setting of much of the writings of Sarah Orne Jewett and Stephen King. For 10 points, name this New England state with capital at Augusta.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: The Providers order that Al-lith marry Ben Ata in one of this author's works, which is the second part of a series that ends with Krolgul and Klorathy returning to Shammat. In addition to The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five and The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire, both part of this author's Canopus in Argos series, this author wrote about the birth of Ben to Harriet and David Lovatt in The Fifth Child and the cat-dog Hugo that accompanies Emily Cartwright in Memoirs of a Survivor. More well known works by this author include one in which Moses kills Mary, the wife of Dick Turner, and one in which stories from Anna Wulf's life are interspersed with excerpts from the novel Free Women. For 10 pointsname this author of The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: author wrote the short poem "You fit into me / like a hook into an eye / a fish hook / an open eye. " In one of her novels, Moira removes a metal lever from a toilet and passes it off as a knife in order to steal Aunt Elizabeth's clothes. In another novel, the newly engaged Marian finds herself completely unable to eat until she bakes a woman-shaped cake for her fianc. This author of The (*) Edible Woman described a novel written by Iris Chase, but initially attributed to her sister Laura, who committed suicide after World War II. This author also wrote about Snowman, who recalls the genetic engineering of a docile race of humans by one of the title characters. For 10 points, identify this author of The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake, and The Handmaid's Tale.

SOLUTION:
Literature