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: This thinker posited that authority exists in legal, charismatic, and traditional forms in a work analyzing bureaucracies called Economy and Society. This man theorized that authority stems from custom, charisma, or law in a work that labels the state as the entity with a monopoly on force. Another work by this author of Politics as a Vocation claims that man was trapped in an "iron cage of rationality" and that the Calvinist view of work as a "calling" has led to the rise of the titular economic system. For 10 points, name this German sociologist who wrote "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism".

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: The Fraunhofer lines of the Sun's electromagnetic spectrum contain a D-line, sometimes known as a ""doublet,"" produced by transitions in this element's family but traditionally named after this element. This metal is currently made using the Downs Cell. When it is used as a coolant in nuclear reactors, the radioactive 24 isotope of this element is formed. It produces a bright (*) yellow flame when heated. This is the second-lightest alkali metal after lithium. For 10 points, identify this metal whose chloride is table salt.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: One character in this play describes another as a sucker who is getting smaller, saying that in another year "there'd be nothing left but his smell." Another character in this play regrets not professing his love for Lydia before she got married and had three children. In this play, George is told to remember incidents such as when his father blamed Frank for giving him a bad tip about oil stock. The death of a character not seen in this play is not believed by his mother Kate due to the fact that November 25th was his most favorable day, but that belief is shattered when Ann gives her a letter revealing that Larry purposely crashed his plane after discovering that his father had covered up defects in engine cylinders for P-40s. For 10 points, name this play about Joe Keller by Arthur Miller.

SOLUTION:
Literature