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: sum of the squares of the reciprocals of this function evaluated at the nonnegative integers is equal to the modified Bessel function of the first kind at x=2. The Leviathan Number is found by evaluating this function at 10 to the 666th power. The rising type can be represented with the Pochhammer Symbol. Wilson's Theorem states that this function of any prime minus 1 is also congruent to -1 modulo that prime. Legendre's theorem provides a corollary to determine the number of (*) trailing zeroes of this function evaluated at nonnegative integers. When this function is evaluated at large numbers, Stirling's approximation is used. The gamma function extends this function to all complex numbers other than negative integers. For 10 points, name this function that, for positive integers n, is the product from 1 to n, and which is represented by an exclamation point.

SOLUTION: 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: In the late 1800's, this scientist claimed that the geometric rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was directly proportional to a linear rise of the Earth's temperature. This man developed an equation that can be extended to transition state theory with the Eyring-Polanyi (EYE-RING POLE-ahn-YEE) equation. That equation based on collision theory contains a term called the pre-exponential factor and relates the rate constant to the (*) activation energy and temperature in chemical kinetics. For 10 points, name this Swedish chemist who names an acid-base theory in which an acid is an electron acceptor.

SOLUTION:
Science