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: This god was suckled by a male boar and seawater when he was born at the edge of the Nine Worlds. In the Lokesenna, Loki says that this god has a muddy back and this god is also said to be the palest of all the gods. The name Gullintanni refers to this god's golden teeth. This god fathered the three (*) castes of man when he took the form of Rig. This god retrieves the Brisingamen for Freyja by transforming into a seal and defeating Loki. This god arrives at Baldr's funeral upon his horse Gulltopr and he wields the sword Hofund. This god is the son of nine mothers and kills and is killed by Loki at Ragnarok. For 10 points, name this Norse god that sounds his Gjallarhorn to signal Ragnarok, and is the guardian of Bifrost.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: Imetelstat, a potential new cancer therapy agent, works by targeting the enzyme that repairs these structures. Blackburn, Greider, and Szostak received the 2009 Nobel Prize for determining the role of these structures, which typically adopt a G-quadruplex shape. The shortening of these structures explains the Hayflick limit to cell division and is the basis for the cellular theory of aging, and that shortening of these structures can lead to cell senescence or apoptosis. Consisting of thousands of TTAGGG repeats in humans, name these end sequences of chromosomes that prevent genes from being lost during DNA replication.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: 1. The children of one couple in this work are dubbed no-neck monsters, and one characters illness is ascribed to a spastic colon instead of its true cause. Another character claims that he drinks because of the worlds mendacity. This play tells of Skipper, who refused to sleep with a woman to disprove allegations that he had a homosexual crush on that womans husband. The plot centers on the birthday party of the patriarch of the Pollitt family, whose sons Brick and Gooper vie for his inheritance. For 10 points, name this Tennessee Williams play whose title feline is Bricks wife Maggie.

SOLUTION:
Literature