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: Eleazer Hosannah convinces a mob of the death of Dr. Godspeak in this authors play Requiem for a Futurologist. This author described a racist landlady who asks a potential tenant ARE YOU LIGHT OR VERY DARK in Telephone Conversation, and wrote about mendicants operated on by the sinister Bero in Madmen and Specialists. This author of the recent King Baabu also wrote a play about the metamorphosis of a religious charlatan first introduced in The Trials of Brother Jero, and depicted a ruler who forces Danlola to present him with the New Yam in a play about a dictator based on Nkrumah. FTP, name this playwright of Kongi's Harvest who described the ritual sacrifice of Elesin in Death and the Kings Horseman.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: The service that concludes this celebration is known as Neilah [NAY-ee-luh] and most wear white during it. Ritual slaughter of a rooster often occurs during this holiday. Originally instituted due to Leviticus 23:26, it is usually begun by the Kol Nidre. Beginning on the tenth day of Tishri, five days before Sukkot, it also includes the Amidah prayer, which expresses communal responsibility for sins committed previously. Not allowing work or consumption of food for 25 hours, for ten points, name this day of atonement, perhaps the most important Jewish holiday.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: were stone benches set up at crossroads for this god, and one of his manifesetations was Miquiztli or "one death. " He seduced the daughter of Uemac while disguised as Toueyo the seller of green peppers and his ixiptla sacrifice involved finding a beautiful young man and giving him eight pages and four wives for twenty days. Those wives included Uixtociuatl as well as the hairy Xilonen or Chicomecoatl and this destroyer of Tollan later kidnapped Xochiquetzal from Tlaloc. His four forms are children of Ometecuhtli and Omechihuatl and include the red and black forms, and this god is usually depicted with black and yellow stripes. Tepelloyotl represents this figure's jaguar aspect, and he often antagonized Quetzalcoatl. For 10 points, name this Aztec god, known for his smoking obsidian mirror.

SOLUTION:
Social Science