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: He ended his life as king of Illyricum and went to Elysium after he and his wife fulfilled a prophecy. This son of Telephassa and Agenor, the rulers of Phoenicia, succeeded at a task in which his four brothers could not. At the end of his life he and his wife Harmonia are turned into snakes, but this has occurred well after he has sown some dragon's teeth. FTP, name this brother of Europa and founder of  Thebes.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: James Wood argued in his essay about this man's "Complacent God" that his writing was more style than content. He has written about a New Jersey teenager who attempted to bomb the Lincoln Tunnel, and published a poetry collection called "Endpoint" and essays called "Due Considerations. " In one story, he writes that Stokesie has "two babies chalked up on his fuselage already," and the main character lusts after Queenie, an unknown girl in a bathing suit. Most of his novels are set in fictional Olinger, Pennsylvania and Eastwick, Rhode Island, and they including the Bech books, Buchanan stories, and "The Scarlet Letter" trilogy, while he is best known for a trilogy involving one character, whose first book ends with the pregnancy of his mistress after his legitimate daughter is accidentally drowned. For 10 points, name this American author of Terrorist and "A&P" best known for his character Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: The Debye-Sears effect concerns materials exhibiting this effect that are placed in a liquid and vibrated at a fixed frequency, in which they set up acoustic waves. Trigonal crystals exhibiting it are especially useful in the eponymous oscillator. The reverse version of the effect is also useful, and occurs when a potential difference is applied to materials that exhibit it, such as barium titanate, Rochelle salts, and quartz. FTP, what is this effect, the generation of a potential difference in certain non-conducting crystals that are subjected to stress

SOLUTION:
Science