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: It begins in Scythia, in a locale characterized as "the world's limit an untrodden desolation. "  The title character doesn't speak until after Kratus and Bia, or Might and Violence, have left, soon after which he is visited by a Chorus of Ocean Nymphs, who like Hephaestus sympathize with the title character. It is to Oceanus that the title character recounts his tale, beginning with the war between the Gods and Titans. FTP, name this Aeschylus play about the tortured Titan whose foresight helped him give hope and fire to Man.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: This man resigned from his position where he directed the operations of the Black Hawk wars in order to become "Envoy Extraordinaire and Minister Plenipotentiary to France. " In 1849, he was elected to fill his own vacancy in the senate, and he resigned as ambassador to France in the wake of the Webster-Ashburton treaty, after writing the pamphlet "An Examination of the Questions now in Discussion between the American and British Government Concerning the Right of Search" in response to the Quintuple treaty negotiations between Austria, Russia, France, Britain, and Prussia to suppress the slave trade. This man lost support in his bid for the presidency due to the defection of the barnburners, and he claimed in the "Nicholson letter" that states should decide for themselves whether to allow slavery. An opponent of the Wilmot Proviso, for 10 points, name this senator from Michigan who was an early proponent of Popular Sovereignty.

SOLUTION:
History