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: After losing a contest to this character, Heracles briefly joined the Thiasus, his retinue. Some stories claim he was the son of Persephone and that, at Heras bidding, the Titans ate all of him but his heart, which Zeus put in the womb of his better-known mother. He is sometimes said to be the father of the Graces with Aphrodite, and he fathered Oenopion with Ariadne. Acoetes, the helmsman, was the only one spared when pirates attempted to sell this god into slavery, and he once drove his cousin Pentheus mad, luring him out into the woods where his Maenads tore him apart. For 10 points, identify this son of Semele, the Greek god of inspired madness and wine.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: Notable translators of it include Alexander Heidel, who rendered all the dirty passages into Latin, and John Gardner. The characters include Siduri "whose drinks refresh the soul" and Ninsun the title character's mother, who interprets many of this dreams. Often known by its first line "He who saw everything," in the latter part of the work the hero encounters talking scorpions who allow him to ascend Mount Mashu and a snake who steals the plant of eternal life which Utnapishtam had told him of. Earlier the hero slew Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven with his friend Enkidu. For 10 points - identify this Babylonian poem about a king of Uruk.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: This composer's choral music included such songs as "The Renegade," and "My Star," but he could also do secular music, as in the Shakespeare Festival March. He wrote a concert etude for piano, On the Seashore, in the same year as his symphonic poem about a vassal of Harold Bluetooth, Hakon Jarl. His final opera, which dealt with a monarch's wish to destroy a legendary dam, was called The Devil's Wall. Both "The Dance of the Comedians" and the aria, "Is it Possible," appear in his opera about Hans' struggle to best Wenzel for the hand of Marie. That work was preceded by the story of Jira in The Brandenburgers in Bohemia. For 10 points, identify this composer whose best known work is composed of such tone poems as "Tabor," "Blanik,"and "The Moldau, and is collectively entitled Ma Vlast. 

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts