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: 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.

A: Social Science
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Q: A fleet led by Lourenco de Almeida was among the first Europeans to colonize this modern day nation. One empire in this modern day nation, whose largest ethnic group is known as the Sinhalese, had its capital at Nallur. The Palk Strait is at the northern end of this nation, as is a series of small islands known as (*) Adam's Bridge. The northern tip of this island was also home to this nation's Jaffna kingdom, which ruled at the same time as other empires on this modern country like the Kotte Kingdom and the Kandy Kingdom. For 10 points, name this Asian nation once known as Ceylon.

A: History
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Q: He once won a fight with the god of death over who was to give water to Ajamila, and he towed a boat to Mount Himavan to save a man from a flood. He once stopped the demon Hiaranyaksha from pushing the world under the sea, and he will appear as a warrior riding a white horse at the end of the Kali Yuga. The goddess of Wealth lives in his torso, and his other consorts include the goddesses of earth and devotion, Bhuavevi and Neeladvi. Riding the son of Kashyap, the giant bird Garuda, this god has appeared as fish, a dwarf, or a man with an axe. FTP, name this Hindu preserver god who forms the trimurti with Brahma and Shiva and whose avatars include Rama and Krishna.

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Social Science
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