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: In one story, this god disguises himself as the farmhand Bolverk in a successful attempt to retrieve the Mead of Poetry. This god sits atop the ""high place"" of Hlidskjalf, and that which he cannot see is recalled to him by his two ever-circling ravens, Hugin and Munin. This god, who hung from the world tree on the spear Gungnir to earn mastery of the runes, will be swallowed whole by the wolf Fenrir at Ragnarok. For 10 points, name this one-eyed chief god of the Norse pantheon.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: In the aria Mal reggendo, one character in this opera relates how a strange voice stopped his hand from killing his opponent in a duel in Act 1. The arias Di due figli and Abbietta zingara are used by one character to narrate a ghost story to a gathering which is dispersed by the ringing of a bell. In Prima che d'altri vivere, the protagonist bids farewell to his lover after she poisons herself. After the first act in which Ferrando conjures the image of a baby burnt alive on a pyre, Chi del gitano i giorni abbella, or the Anvil Chorus, is sung by a group of gypsies. After the death of Leonora, the mother of Azucena is avenged when Count di Luna orders the execution of the title character Manrico. FTP, name this opera by Giuseppe Verdi.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: He used an electronic instrument that converted neon lights into sound in his Concertino for Trautonium and Strings. Revisions of his Cello Sonata demonstrate his conversion to the new objectivity, and he was also associated with the origins of utility music. He wrote the theory book The Craft of Musical Composition, and after writing the Life of Mary songs and the opera Cardillac, he protested the treatment of art under the Nazis with the movements Angelic Concert, Entombment, and Temptation of Saint Anthony in a 1934 protest performance. FTP, name this man who set to music When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed and created an opera about a sixteenth-century painter, entitled Mathis der Maler.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts