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.

Early in his career he was forced to share power with John Carteret, but was eventually able to force his resignation. He spent time in jail for graft during a period of Tory ascendancy, but was most popular for his economic policies, including his establishment of the sinking fund to reduce the national debt, which he had also addressed with his resolution of the South Sea Bubble crisis. However, he was forced from office due to British failures in the early stages of the War of the Austrian Succession. FTP, who was this first official Prime Minister of Britain
History

composed a set of works dedicated to Grand Duke Paul of Russia that includes pieces such as "The Birds" and "How Do You Do" and one finale contains various pauses to confuse the audience, titled "The Joke. " One of his works contains the "Ewiger, machtiger Gott" chorus towards the end of its "Spring" movement. Another set of his works are occaisonally named for his collaborator Johann Salomon, including one whose second movement contains an 8-note accompaniment by the bassoons that imitates the ticking of the title device, and another which derives its name from the loud G chord in its sixteenth measure. For 10 points, identify this composer of the Clock and Surprise symphonies.
Fine Arts

This artist's time in Cullercoats influenced the creation of such words as Inside the Bar. Two black crows menacingly stare down the central animal in this man's Fox Hunt, and a woman holding a parasol gazes over her shoulder at a man in a straw hat in a boat in the sand in his Two Are Company, Three Are None. Two men attempt to get their bearings in the Eight Bells, and A Union officer confronts a group of disheveled confederate prisoners against a desolate Virginia landscape in Prisoners from the Front, and another of his works shows a waterspout in the distance while sharks surround a black man's boat in the foreground. FTP, name this American who painted many watercolors of ocean scenes in addition to Breezing Up and The Gulf Stream.

Fine Arts