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.

This artist executed the Blue series for the Centre Pompidou and Personages and Birds for the Wichita State Art Museum, while a stuffed parrot sits on top of his sculpture simply called Object. A Jan Steen painting influenced the second entry in his Dutch Interiors series, and he created the ceramic murals Wall of the Sun and Wall of the Moon for the UNESCO building. A blackberry jam stain became his Birth of the World, and another work features the multi-colored title animal below the multi-colored title celestial object. For 10 points, name this artist of Dog Barking at the Moon and Harlequin's Carnival, a Catalan surrealist.
Fine Arts

A hypothetical method of decay for these particles involves breaking into a positron and a neutral pion and would have a half-life on the order of 10 to the 35 years. In astronomy, these particles are employed in a namesake chain located in the cores of stars in order to synthesis lighter elements. Particles of this type are typically composed of two up quarks and a single down quark and these particles make up about 90% of all cosmic rays. Discovered by Ernest Rutherford, for 10 points, identify this subatomic particles that contributes the positive charge of an atoms nucleus.
Science

One of this writer's plays ends with Sam collapsed on the floor and Ruth resolving to stay behind in London, leaving Teddy to return to America. In another play, he traced the evolution of Emma and Jerry's affair in reverse chronology. This playwright of The Homecoming and Betrayal wrote a play that includes an argument over the semantics of lighting a kettle and ends with Ben holding Gus at gunpoint. In another of his plays, McCann and Goldberg take Stanley Webber away from the title celebration. For 10 points, name this "comedy of menace" dramatist of The Dumb Waiter and The Birthday Party.

Literature

