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: Two female members of this occupation served under John Rackham and were named Mary Read and Anne Bonny. Members of this profession could gain government support if granted a Letter of Marque, which made them privateers. In this occupation's Golden Age, Bartholomew Roberts had the most success, and that age also saw the likes of (*) Edward Teach and William Kidd. For 10 points, name this profession that got the majority of its members from the ships it robbed, and whose captains included Blackbeard and whose ships flew the Jolly Roger.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: Popular festivals in honor of this god include the Tubilustrium and the Equirria. His sacred animals were the woodpecker and wolf and his epithets included Gradivus and Ultor. His consort was the Sabine fertility goddess Nerio, but Ovid relates that he was tricked into sleeping with Anna Perenna. The chief temple of his sat on the Capitoline hill beside those of Jupiter and Quirinus, the latter of whom is associated with his son Romulus. FTP, name this Roman god of war often identified with the Greek Ares.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: This man's conception occurred as a result of the "fun of the roads", a form of coitus interruptus gone wrong. He made use of the medical skills of Francis Fynn, and one source for his reign comes from Nathaniel Isaacs, who had been dispatched to search for shipwrecked men. The winner of a battle at Mome Gorge, he sheltered refugees from the Khumalo kingdom and fought numerous conflicts with Zwide, including the Battle of Gqokli Hill. He used his mother Nandi's death as the pretext for a political massacre, and started his career among the Mtethwa confederation. He started a movement called the Mfecane, or "crushing", which provided a model for the neighboring Ndelebe and Sotho peoples. The successor to Dingiswayo, his successor Dingane was crushed by the Voortrekkers at Blood River. For 10 points, name this ruler who pioneered the 'bull horns' and impi tactics and established the Zulu Empire.

SOLUTION:
Science