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: According to one story, this figure founded a city when his efforts in digging up a mushroom revealed a spring. That city was ruled by Electryon and Sthenelus, members of a namesake dynasty he founded. When this ruler was unable to assume the throne of Argos, he traded realms with Megapenthes. This man was sent on a quest by a king of Seriphus named (*) Polydectes during which he stole the tooth and eye of the Graeae. He rescued the daughter of Cassiopea and Cepheus from a sea monster before taking that girl, Andromeda, as his wife. His mother Danae was locked in a tower by King Acrisius to avoid a prophecy, but he was conceived by Zeus in the form a stream of gold. For 10 points, name this hero who used winged sandals and the helmet of invisibility to slay Medusa.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: This man wrote about a creature that "launch'd forth filament, filament, filament" in a poem about a "noiseless patient spider." He wrote "Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!" in his "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." He published a "deathbed edition" of his continually revised masterpiece, which includes a poem beginning "I celebrate myself, and sing myself." For 10 points, name this American poet who included "Song of Myself" in his Leaves of Grass.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: The Tistian isthmus connects the volcanoes Concepcion and Madera which lie on Ometepe, the largest island in this body of water. Originally called "sweet sea" or "Mar Dulce (Dool-sey)" by the Spanish, its current name is derived from an Indian chief whose people lived on its shores. Linked to another large lake by the Tipitapa river, the San Juan drains out of it and forms a boundary with Costa Rica. FTP identify this only freshwater lake with sharks, the largest in Central America, which shares its name with a country that counts Managua as its capital.

SOLUTION:
Social Science