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: author claimed that there is no right to hold a bird of prey accountable for being a bird of prey. Ernst Haeckel latched onto this philosopher's idea of the "world riddle. " A renowned translator and interpreter of this philosopher's works was Walter Kaufman. This thinker chastised his prior love of Wagner in an "attempt at self-criticism" appended to a work in which he contrasted the Dionysian and Apollonian aspects of the title art form. He described the "blond beast" in his treatment of ethics, On the Genealogy of Morals. For 10 points, name this philosopher who proclaimed "God is Dead" in The Gay Science and wrote The Birth of Tragedy.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: J. Gwyn Griffiths argued out that the title of this work is derived from Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historia though Johnstone Parr pointed out that Raleighs History of the World may have also been a possible source. The speaker of most of the poem commends an artist for having well those passions read and creating a figure with [a] frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command. For 10 points, identify this poem whose titular king of kings commands the narrator to Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!, a sonnet about Ramses the Great by Percy Shelley.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: This cultures underworld was protected by a river of scorpions and contains locations such as the dark house, cold house, and razor house. One figure in this cultures mythology is married to Chimalmat and pretends to be the sun and the moon. That figure, Vucub Caquix, is the father of the earthquake god Cabracan as well as a demon who killed four hundred boys that became stars, Zipacna. These and many other evil demons are eventually killed by Hunahpu and Xbalanque who also defeat the lords of Xibalba en route to becoming the hero twins. For ten points, name this Mesoamerican culture whose mythology can be found in the Popol Vuh.

SOLUTION:
Social Science