You will be given a trivia clue, and the category it belongs to. You should answer with the best answer that belongs in the category and is described by the clue. For simplicity, answers should be in all lower cased letters.

Category: VOCABULARY 
Clue: This adjective for scholars & "Jeopardy!" champs is from the Latin ex, "out or away" & rudis, "rudeness"
erudite

Category: RARITIES 
Clue: All 6 examples of his signature known to exist date from between 1612 & 1616
william shakespeare

Category: AUTHORS 
Clue: John Dryden in 1683 was the first to use the term "biography"--appropriately, while writing about this Greek

plutarch