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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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Martin and Primavesi recently discovered a fragment of this thinkers treatise On Nature. This man wrote the poem Katharmoi, but Aristotle excluded this mans works from the Poetics because while it was written in hexameter, it does not characterize its subject matter as a representation of life. OBrien, Wright, and Aristotle all claimed that this man adhered to a cyclical view of the universe, and this thinker also argued that human limbs once lived on their own. He wrote an autobiography known as the Purifications, in which he said that he was a vegetarian because animals contain transmigrated human souls. This man believed that all matter was once a sphere, which dissolved into the present world. He argued that neikos and philia drove the world, with strife separating substances and love bringing them together. This Sicilian is said to have died by throwing himself into Mt. Etna. For ten points, name this pre-Socratic philosopher who argued that the world was divided into four elements: water, earth, wind, and fire.
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Social Science


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sum of the squares of the reciprocals of this function evaluated at the nonnegative integers is equal to the modified Bessel function of the first kind at x=2. The Leviathan Number is found by evaluating this function at 10 to the 666th power. The rising type can be represented with the Pochhammer Symbol. Wilson's Theorem states that this function of any prime minus 1 is also congruent to -1 modulo that prime. Legendre's theorem provides a corollary to determine the number of (*) trailing zeroes of this function evaluated at nonnegative integers. When this function is evaluated at large numbers, Stirling's approximation is used. The gamma function extends this function to all complex numbers other than negative integers. For 10 points, name this function that, for positive integers n, is the product from 1 to n, and which is represented by an exclamation point.
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Science


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While ruled by Reccared I, these people converted from Arianism to Catholocism. This group collapsed after Roderic was killed at the Battle of Guadalete. Toulouse served as an early capital for these people, whose rulers often came from the Balti dynasty. Their kingdom in Gaul was defeated at the Battle of Vouille by Clovis I, after which this group moved their capital to Toledo and ruled over most of Hispania. One ruler of this group died at the (*) Catalaunian Plains. For ten points, name this Germanic group, led at times by Theodoric I and Alaric I, that sacked Rome in 410 AD, often contrasted with the Ostrogoths.
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History