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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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One of this man's theories was supported by the discovery that Hittite contained forms in which distinct reflexes of the laryngeals are recorded, and he explained how the vowel alternations of a came about in his first work, Memoir on the Original System of Vowels in the Indo-European Languages. He is noted for his terms langue, or regularities and patterns in speech, and parole, or actual acts of speech. The work he is most famous for is often considered the foundation for structural linguistics, though Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye actually published it. FTP name this Swiss linguist whose lecture notes and other materials were posthumously turned into the seminal Course in General Linguistics.
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Social Science

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character in this novel decides to make a sacrifice out of a doll after jumping off of a couch and smashing it. That character undergoes a rough interview in which he misinterprets the French word "doigts" before landing a job under Mr. Pappleworth at Jordan's surgical appliances factory. The protagonist of this novel has an older brother named William who falls in love with a shallow girl from London before succumbing to illness. After his deadbeat coal-miner father Walter gets injured at work, the protagonist of this novel visits the Leivers's farm, where he begins his lifelong relationship with Miriam. That protagonist finds moderate commercial success with his landscape painting after beginning his affair with Clara Dawes, but he is sent into a deep depression after giving his mother an overdose of morphine to end her pain. For 10 points, name this D. H. Lawrence novel about Paul Morel.
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Literature

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This ruler's armies conquered the Zan people of Georgia but suffered losses to a group led by Totila. His forces engaged Gelimer's in the Vandalic War, and a namesake plague during his reign forced him to cancel many of his public works projects. The Chalke and the Baths of Zeuxippus were damaged during his reign after the Blues and Greens united, forcing him to remove Tribonian from office. That mob in the Hippodrome was crushed by his general Belisarius. For 10 points, name this Byzantine emperor who survived the Nika riots, instituted a namesake law code, and reconquered parts of the Western Roman Empire.
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History