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: In one of this author's short stories, the title character is killed after taking a boy hostage, after which his body is dumped in an unused mine and stinks up the village. In addition to The Catch, this author has recently completed the trilogy The Flaming Green Tree, a work he claims will be his last. Other works by him include a four-volume collection that contains a story about the boy Eeyore, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, and a novel about children who are taken to a remote village after a plague breaks out. The birth of Bird's child with a brain hernia parallels this man's own experiences with his retarded son and is central to his A Personal Matter. FTP, identify this author of Nip the Bud, Shoot the Kids, who also wrote about the brothers Mitsu and Takashi in The Silent Cry.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: man angered Isabella de l'Anguileme when he named his brother as the Comte de Poitou. He won a battle against Henry III and the Comte de la Marche before negotiating a truce with Hugh of Lusignan at Taillebourg Bridge. John of Ibelin helped this man to push Fakhr ad-Din to Damietta in his most famous initiative, which later saw the arrival of Alfonso of Poitou at Cairo. He was captured at the Battle of Farsikur during a war that he fought alongside his brother, Robert of Artois. This son of Blanche of Castille and was the leader of the Seventh Crusade. For 10 points, name this ruler from 1226 to 1270, the only French king to be canonized.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: Derivatives of these chemical compounds include a nested type, synthesized by Motiei, and an endohedral type which encapsulates another atom. They have been produced by Hauflers arching technique, and Taylor showed that they could be synthesized by the pyrolysis of naphthalene, but the traditional method of producing them is the Kratschmer-Huffman or K-H Method. Any method of synthesis will require separating them from soot, for example by dissolving in toluene. Harold Kroto, Robert Curl, and Richard Smalley gained fame for the discovery of the archetypal one, described as a truncated icosahedron composed of hexagons and pentagons. Allotropes of carbon, FTP, name these compounds whose best known example is named after an architect Buckminster.

SOLUTION:
Science