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 political thought, this man contributed a comparison of socialism, anarchism, and syndicalism, three of the titular Roads to Freedom. In another work sometimes viewed as a sequel to his What I Believe, he critiqued organized religion and as a whole, writing that "No one can sit at the bedside of a dying child and claim to believe in God" in an attempt to explain Why I Am Not a (*) Christian. Other works by this man include one written with Alfred North Whitehead, in which he explained the whole of mathematics in terms of logical expressions. For 10 points, name this modern British philosopher who wrote Principia Mathematica.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: This author denounced V. S. Naipaul for identifying with wealthy, modernized countries, and contrasted him with Narayan's interest in the people of Malgudi in his essay "Today, a Balance of Stories. " He described a boy ashamed of writing about the harmattan in an essay about the function of the author, "The Novelist as Teacher. " This author wrote that "art for art's sake is just another piece of deodorized dog-shit" and argued that Armah's novel The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born ignores the sickness of Ghana for the sickness of the modern world in "Africa and Her Writers. " This founding editor of the literary magazine Okike wrote a novel in which Odo prostitutes his daughter Edna for money paid by Nanga, who maneuvers to win an election over Odili Samalu. The protagonist of another of his novels wins a scholarship from the UPU before returning to Lagos and taking bribes to pay for the abortion of his girlfriend Clara. For 10 points, name this author of A Man of the People, who wrote about Obi Okonkwo in No Longer at Ease, the sequel to his novel Things Fall Apart. 

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: Following a victory at Pruth River, Turkey withdrew after being granted control of Azov, and Augustus the Strong was forced out of power through the Treaty of Altranstadt. Frederick IV was forced to withdraw following the landing of opposing forces at Copenhagen, which was prompted by Peter the Great laying siege at Narva, and Russian forces were later victorious at Lesnaya and Poltava. Ended by the Treaty of Nystad, it was effectively ended after the siege of Frederikshald, which resulted in the death of Charles XII. FTP, identify this conflict of the early 1700s which saw a coalition including Russia, Denmark, and Norway gang up on Sweden.

SOLUTION:
History