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: proteins bind one end of these structures and help inhibit a process called "catastrophe. " These structures can have persistence lengths of 3-4 mm, which is several orders of magnitude higher than the average cellular diameter. These structures can be severed by katanin. Drugs such as paclitaxel stabilize these structures and prevent their depolymerization, where colchicine prevents its dimeric subunits from coming together. Shortening of these structure at the kinetochore ends of the spindle apparatus helps chromosomes walk towards poles during mitosis and meiosis. For 10 points, identify these structures which are components of the cytoskeleton and which are made of tubulin proteins.

Answer: Science


Question: The last thing he wrote before his suicide was a story entitled "Gleanings From" his most famous work, the longest of his "palm-of-the-hand" stories. David Henry Hwang wrote this man into a theatrical adaptation of this author's House of the Sleeping Beauties, written after his novel about the twin daughters of kimono salesmen, The Old Capital. Other novels by him deal with the six-month contest between Ottake and Shusai, and with the love of Shimmamura for a northern geisha. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of The Master of Go and Snow Country.

Answer: Literature


Question: An oracle instructed the inhabitants of this city to hold an annual swinging festival to stop an outbreak of girls hanging themselves in imitation of Erigone. That outbreak occurred after a group of shepherds from this city mistook wine for poison and killed Icarius during the reign of king Pandion. Another king of this city had daughters named Aglauros, Pandrosos and Herse, who were told never to look inside a willow basket containing a child born when Hephaestus's semen impregnated Gaia. That child became the second autochthonous king of this city, and he was half snake like this city's founder Cecrops, who ruled in favor of an olive tree over a spring in a contest between Poseidon and this city's patron goddess. For 10 points, name this city whose kings included Aegeus and Theseus, named for the Greek goddess of wisdom.

Answer:
Social Science