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 man repudiated the Walrasian school after he published a work critical of the marginal productivity theory of distribution. In his magnum opus, he argued that actions are based on illogical decisions called "residues" and are justified by "derivations. " In additio to writing Cours d'economie politique and Mind and Society, his collaborative work with Francis Edgeworth resulted in the indifference curve, and he is also the namesake of a distribution, which leads to the conclusion that 80% of the outcome can be attributed to 20% of the causes. For 10 points, identify this economist, who also names a condition where no person can be made better of without making anybody worse off.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: A character created by this author socializes with Billy through sex with Billy's sister Trudy. In a story by this author, one character achieves masculinity by shooting a lion right before he is shot by his wife; that story features a triangle between Margot, Wilson, and Francis Macomber. His works often feature the theme of "nada" and follow the iceberg theory in omitting detail. He created a character who escapes the battle police and falls in love with Catherine Barkley, and he quoted Gertrude Stein on the Lost Generation for one novel's epitaph. For 10 points, name this writer who created Frederic Henry and Jake Barnes in A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: This composer revised Anton Seidl's orchestration of his piano pieces for a suite that included a new arrangement of his "Shepherd's Boy". The original version of one movement by him concludes with a male chorus singing "Kill him! Kill him!" at its climax. One work by him opens with a pentatonic melody for flute in 6/8 time over alternating E major and C-sharp minor chords. That work by him includes a mazurka for strings and triangle. He included an arrangement of his "March of the Dwarves" in his Lyric Suite. A timpani roll directly precedes the entrance of the pianist at the opening of his Piano Concerto in A minor. Incidental music he wrote spawned suites including the movements "Morning Mood" and "In the Hall of the Mountain King". For 10 points, name this Norwegian composer of the Peer Gynt Suites.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts