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 story, a goddess was persuaded by a fox to sleep with this figure, and she subsequently fathered eight gods who could cure eight different body parts. This deity was sometimes known as the "Lord of semen," and in one story his semen caused seven different types of plants to sprout from the earth. This figure asked a sun god to make footprints in the ground so that he could fill them with water, giving life to a barren island called Dilmun. This figure saved humanity by warning Atrahasis of a coming flood and, in another story, the misfortunes of humans were a result of a contest between this figure and Ninhursag. This figure causes a confusion of tongues in a speech to Enmerkar, and he was sometimes represented as half-goat and half-fish. Commonly called the "Lord of Abzu," this figure ruled from the city of Eridu and in one story was seduced by the goddess Inanna. For 10 points, identify this Sumerian deity of knowledge, fertility, and water, who was later identified with the Babylonian Ea.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: One opera by this composer ends with Death departing and Satyavan coming back to life. In addition to Savitri, he composed the opera At the Boar's Head. Orchestral works by this composer include the Thomas Hardy inspired tone poem Egdon Heath, and a work named for the school where he taught, St. Paul's Suite. The movements "Song of the Blacksmith" and "Fantasia on the Dargason" conclude his Second Suite in F for Military Band. His best-known work was inspired by astrology and contains seven movements, the first of which features an ostinato rhythm in 5/4, and is entitled "Mars, the Bringer of War. " For 10 points, name this English composer of The Planets.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: His early works of rural landscapes, such as Landscape with Ditch and Women and Child in front of a Farm, failed to win him the Prix de Rome when he entered in 1898 and 1901. A critical component of his work was the tilted "lozenge", leading to an established structure of his following period which would be modified in works like 1942's New York City I. After meeting Theo van Doesburg, he created several works based on one of Doesburg's stained glass window, during a period where he was a frequent contributor to the De Stijl magazine. The creator of a style translated from the Dutch phrase nieuwe beelding, or "new image," for 10 points, name this artist known for typifying Neoplasticism in such works as Broadway Boogie-Woogie.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts