Detailed Instructions: 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.
See one example below:
Problem: In one work this author details the life of a tomb-maker who makes extra money by playing the organ at an insane asylum, while another of his novels sees Swartz give a refugee proper documentation only after he tells him his life story in the title Portuguese city. In addition to The Black Obelisk and The Night in Lisbon, he also wrote about Robert and Otto selling their auto workshop and visiting Patrice in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium in his novel The Three Comrades, while the turbulent life of the German surgeon Ravic is told in The Arch of Triumph. Another of his novels, The Road Back, is thought to be a sequel to his most famous book, in which the patriotic teacher Kantorek convinces Paul Bumer and his friends to join the Germany Army during World War I. For 10 points, name this German author who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front.
Solution: Literature
Explanation: The text is talking about an author and their works, so it belongs to theliterature category.

Problem: Two characters in this book achieve fame as singers, and are respectively nicknamed Wee Willie Winkie and The Brass Monkey. William Methwold is secretly the father of one character in this book, and Mary Pereira, who later opens a pickling concern, is responsible for the deception that drives the plot. A child in this novel, Aadam, has enormous ears, which are attributed to his arrival in the world during a state of emergency proclaimed in 1975. The knees and nose of the two central figures have magic powers, though one such character exposes the secret, causing all of his cohorts to be sterilized. For 10 points, name this novel about the Indians born just as the country received its independence, a story of Shiva and Saleem Sinai by Salman Rushdie.
Solution:
Literature