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: Her third husband was a farmer who lost his crops to a horde of fairy mice, but they stopped harassing him after he caught one and threatened to hang it. Before she married Manawydan, she had a child by her second husband who vanished from their home and ended up at the court of Teirnon. The daughter of Hefeydd the Old, this lady of the Singing Birds decided that she preferred a lord of Dyfed to her first husband, Gwawl. Considered a version of the horse goddess Epona, she was the mother of Pryderi by the man she loved, Pwyll. FTP, name this figure from Welsh myth who rings like a bell through the night in a song by Fleetwood Mac.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: In one work, this thinker consults with a monk to better understand the concept of proximate power. This thinker divided hypotheses into three categories depending on what absurdities would be implied by accepting the hypothesis as true or false. This man participated in the Formulary Controversy with a series of letters in which he attacked Antonio Escobar's use of casuistry and lambasted the moral lapses of the Jesuits. After a carriage accident and a subsequent religious vision, he published his Memorial, which led to him taking up the cause of the Jansenists. He is the namesake of an idea that suggests that the belief in God represents the possibility of infinite gain while only imposing a finite loss. For 10 points, name this author of the Provincial Letters and Pensees, a French philosopher who is the namesake of a "wager" and a mathematical triangle.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: He painted a self portrait in which he wears a gray jacket and holds the outside of his collar with his right hand, while a black hat hangs askew on his head. Three angels attempt to restrain a terrified-looking lion, horse, and eagle in another painting by this man, while he also painted a baby tied to a board on the left of one painting which focuses on two white men kneeling and offering gifts to Native American tribal leaders. In addition to The Power of Love in the Three Elements and Penn's Treaty with the Indians, he painted a more well known work in which a guy with crazy hair clasps his hands and an Indian watches the central action with detached interest as the British commander at the battle of the Plains of Abraham bites the dust. For 10 pointsname this painter of The Death of General Wolfe.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts