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: After losing a contest to this character, Heracles briefly joined the Thiasus, his retinue. Some stories claim he was the son of Persephone and that, at Heras bidding, the Titans ate all of him but his heart, which Zeus put in the womb of his better-known mother. He is sometimes said to be the father of the Graces with Aphrodite, and he fathered Oenopion with Ariadne. Acoetes, the helmsman, was the only one spared when pirates attempted to sell this god into slavery, and he once drove his cousin Pentheus mad, luring him out into the woods where his Maenads tore him apart. For 10 points, identify this son of Semele, the Greek god of inspired madness and wine.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: A response to one of this man's works contains the lines, ""When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead! "" That work is John Greenleaf Whittier's ""Ichabod. "" He is the namesake of Jim Smiley's pet jumping frog in a Mark Twain story. In another story, he talks about how man was ""tricked and trapped and bamboozled"" while defending Jabez Stone in front of a jury of the damned. For 10 points, name this orator who bests the Devil in a Stephen Vincent Benet story.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: A soldier from this country infamously struck U.S. consul John Allison. During peacetime, the U.S. gunboat Panay was bombed by this country. Its actions were criticized by the U.S. in the Stimson Doctrine. Camps such as Heart Mountain and Manzanar housed emigrants from this country during the 1940s. For 10 points, name this country which fought against the US in the Pacific theater of World War II.

SOLUTION:
History