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: 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: The artists friend Meyer de Haan appears with two semi-nude women surrounded by flowers in his Barbarian Tales. A naked black woman lies on her stomach on a green bed in one painting by this painter. He drew a tree branch to set off the main action taking place on a vermillion background in another work. This painter of Spirits of the Dead Keep Watch and Jacob Wrestling with the Angel also painted a religious figure surrounded by Breton women. He depicted an old woman with a white bird at her feet representing the final stage of life in another painting. For 10 points, name this French painter who painted The Yellow Christ and Where Do We Come From What Are We Where Are We Going while living out his life on Tahiti.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: Some of the early members of this set of works, including the Khandogya and Brihad, belong to the Brahmanas of their base works, while many others contain the doctrine of neti-neti as propounded by Yajnavalkya. The fundamental objective of these speculative works is, generally, the ultimate synthesis of atman and Brahman, which several claim to accomplish. The source of the Vedanta, FTP, name this set of approximately one hundred commentaries on the Vedas, the name of which may imply sitting near the feet of a master.

SOLUTION:
Social Science