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: poem by this author describes a wall inscribed with the phrase "PARAS THIRTEEN, BOGSIDE NIL" and is an elegy for a man who "drank like a fish" before he was "blown to bits. " He included the image of a "four foot box, a foot for every year" in a poem narrated by a student who "sat all morning in the college sick bay counting bells knelling classes to a close. " This author of "Casualty" wrote of a student of Miss Walls who collects "jampotfulls" of (*) "frogspawn" in another poem. He wrote that "my squat pen rests" "between my finger and my thumb" in a poem that compares his profession to his father's labor in the bogs. For 10 points, name this poet who included "Mid-Term Break" and "Digging" in his collection The Death of a Naturalist, an Irish Nobel winner who translated Beowulf.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: The layout of this painting mirrors the plan for St. Peter's Basilica. In the center of this painting, a man wearing a purple shirt slumps against a box, scribbling on a sheet of paper at the bottom of some stairs. To the right of him, a man dressed in blue reclines on the stairs while reading a sheet of paper in his hand. On the left side of this painting, a small crowd gathers around (*) Pythagoras as he writes in a large book while kneeling. To the right, a small crowd watches as Euclid bends down and draws on a small tablet on the floor. For ten points, name this painting by Raphael depicting Plato and Aristotle walking together through the title building.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: Alfred Gilman injected these animals with salt and urea to study the causes of thirst. One of these creatures named Rico has been used as evidence for the fast mapping method of language acquisition. The Scott-Fuller investigation was a 20 year study of the behavior of these animals. In one experiment, these animals were placed in a shuttle box with a barrier on one side of which electric shocks would be administered. In that experiment by Seligman, the members of this species already conditioned to the shocks showed signs of learned helplessness. In another experiment, these animals had their esophagi cut and food placed directly into their stomachs. For 10 points, name these animals that were conditioned to salivate when Pavlov rang a bell.

SOLUTION:
Science