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.
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Question: Descartes' First Meditation claims that the obsession over this material is related to a "cerebellaso clouded with black bile. " This substance was at the center of a mania first described in a case study of a man from Saint Germaine who was compelled to defecate standing up, and constantly wore a small pillow on his rear end, who was only cured when his doctor gave him a "severe thrashing. " This material was the namesake of that manic obsession, whose most famous sufferer's condition was documented by the future Pope Pius II and included a fear of being touched and the wearing of protective clothing. Many sufferers of the obsession over this material thought that they were a "urinal. " For 10 points, name this material at the center of a sixteenth-century "delusion" that the French King Charles VI suffered from, in which people thought that they were susceptible to shattering because they were made of it.

Answer: Social Science


Question: Three of the islands in this group voted for independence in 1975, while Mayotte chose to remain a French dependency. Its first president was Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman, who was assassinated in 1989. Its highest peak is Karthala, a still-active volcano on the largest island of this group. Other islands include Mwali and Nzwani, which were formerly known as Anjouan and Mohli. Located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel, FTP, identify this island nation with capital at Moroni.

Answer: Social Science


Question: This man talked about Humanity in Crisis and Bergsonian challenges in Techniques Technology and Civilization, and also wrote A General Theory of Magic. He helped found the University of Paris' Ethnology Institute, and he collaborated with Henri Hubert on (*) Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function. This author of Primitive Classification talked about potlatch in a work subtitled The Form and Reason For Exchange in Archaic Societies. For 10 points, name this French anthropologist, the nephew of Emile Durkheim, and author of a book that examines reciprocity, The Gift.

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Social Science