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: One character in this novel receives news of her brother's death from her father while he uses a lathe. This novel's protagonist develops a friendship with Platon Karataev, a peasant he meets in a prisoner of war camp. Another character, Nikolai, is led to financial ruin after(*) losing 40,000 roubles to Dolokov. Andrei Bolkonski is wounded in battle following the end of his engagement to Natasha Rostova, who falls in love with the novel's protagonist. For 10 points, name this gargantuan Leo Tolstoy novel about Pierre Bezukhov set during the Napoleonic Wars.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: In a 1984 study, J.G. Miller showed that this was less common among Indian Hindus than Americans. The common term for it was first coined in the work "The Intuitive Psychologist and His Shortcomings", while studies by Daniel Gilbert have shown it to be more common when cognitive load is high. Lee Ross coined the term for it in 1977, while Edward Jones and Victor Harris demonstrated it in a famous 1967 experiment in which subjects read essays and were then asked to rate the authors attitudes toward Fidel Castro. Also called the "correspondence bias," FTP, name this psychological tendency to over-emphasize personality attributes and under-emphasize situational attributes in explaining the behavior of others.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: One postulated type of this entity is known as the ""self-interacting"" type. The galaxy rotation problem is indirect evidence for its existence. It is grouped into the categories of hot, warm, and cold, based on the speed at which it travels. Proposed forms of it include massive astronomical compact halo objects and (*) weakly interacting massive particles, or MACHOs and WIMPs. For 10 points, name this hypothesized type of matter which accounts for 80% of the matter in the universe.

SOLUTION:
Social Science