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.

[Q]: Category: IT'S A GROUP THING 
Clue: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Sea World in San Diego)  It's a term for a stable group of killer whales, so you could say "as alike as two whales in" one of these
[A]: a pod


[Q]: Category: GETTING TICKED ON 
Clue: The tick species Ixodes dammini has as its favorite hosts white-footed mice & white-tailed these
[A]: deer


[Q]: Category: JONATHAN SWIFT 
Clue: Not to tell tales, but Swift wrote some pieces for this journal created by Richard Steele in 1709
[A]:
the tattler