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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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Founder-flush models of this phenomenon propose that it may result from repeated bottlenecks. Changes of ploidy in plants can cause this process due to the frequent sterility of the resulting offspring. The(*) sympatric version of this phenomena occurs between populations in the same region, and punctuated equilibria are a sign of the allopatric variety of this process in the fossil record. For 10 points, name this biological process, in which populations become reproductively isolated and diverge, leading to the formation of new species.
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Social Science


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This man's only drama concerns a Greek scientist who comes to Rome bearing the inventions of the steam engine, gun powder, and the printing press and was adapted from the author's short story "Envoy Extraordinairy. "  The pederast Mr. Sebastian Pedigree spurns the overtures of friendship by the burn victim Matty Windrave in one of his novels, while in another Roger Mason attempts to rebuild the title structure onto Jocelin's cathedral. In addition to Darkness Visible and The Spire, he wrote an epistolary novel about Reverend Colley's relationship to the haughty Edmund Talbot, Rites of Passage. In a better-known novel he writes about the ultimately spurious stranding of a navy officer on a barren rock. Also known for Fire Down Below and The Inheritors, this is, FTP, what author, best known for his tale of depraved schoolboys trapped on an island, Lord of the Flies.
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Literature


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one myth, Zeus struck this figure's lover Iasion in the face with a thunderbolt after he saw mud on her back from their tryst in a field. Though she hid among the mares of Onkios, Poseidon was still able to find her and impregnate her, resulting in the birth of Despoine. In another myth, this deity disguised herself as the nurse Doso and attempted to burn away Demophon's immortality, but after Metanira stopped her, she taught her skills to Triptolemus. However, this deity is perhaps most famous for ending the harvest after her brother, Hades, took her daughter while she was picking flowers in a field. For 10 points, name this goddess of the seasons and the harvest, the mother of Persephone.
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Social Science