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: Halogen addition to them creates a mixture of a 1-2 and 1-4 addition product. One preparation of them involves butane undergoing thermal dehydration. Another synthesis of the conjugated variety of this chemical group involves elimination of unsaturated alcohols and alkyl halides. They include a number of useful reagents, including ones named for Chan, Dane, Brassard, Rawal, and Danishefsky. In addition to the conjugated variety, they also occur in isolated and cumulated varieties. Conjugation energy guarantees that the conjugated form is the most stable. For ten points, what is this organic functional group whose 1,3 variety are a principal reactant in the Diels-Alder reaction, and which is characterized by a pair of double bonds.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: An important critique of this work was published five years after its author's death and asserts that much of this work was based on the made-up stories of two teenagers; that critique is by (*) Derek Freeman. Published with a forward by Franz Boas, it was based on its author's time living on the island of Ta'u where she observed that teenagers living in an open and non-secretive society had relatively stress-free lives compared to their American counterparts. For 10 points, name this influential anthropology book by Margaret Mead.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: One of these creatures named Hylonome committed suicide when her husband Cyllarus was killed in a
battle. Along with fairies, this creatures were said to inhabit the Foloi Oak Forest. A pair of these figures
named Hylaeus and Rhaecus attempted to rape Atalanta but were killed by Meleager. A group of these
creatures beat Caeneus into the ground using stones, and a group of them were killed by a certain hero after
one of them named Pholus offered wine. At the wedding of Pelops and Hippodamia, these creatures fought
against their rivals, the Lapiths. These creatures were the product of the union of Ixion and Nephele.
Deianeira took a shirt and dipped it into the blood of one of these creatures named Nessus, which caused
Heracles great agony when he wore it. For 10 points, name these wise creatures from Greek Mythology
which were half-human half-horse.

SOLUTION:
Social Science