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: In a biography added to a 1640 edition of his works, Izaak Walton calls this writer another "Picus Mirandola. " His own prose includes a satirical atack on the Jesuits, Ignatius his Conclave, a defense of "self-homicide,"  Biathanatos, and the Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions. He also penned such lines as "Go and Catch a Falling Star," and it is for poems such as "The Sun Rising," "The Canonization", and "The Flea"  for which he's best known. FTP identify this metaphysical poet of the Holy Sonnets and "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning. "

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: The aristocratic Fourteen Families survived the crash of this country's indigo industry by slavedriving their way into coffee-producing wealth, while its natoional tradition venerates the Pipil warriors who repelled Pedro de Alvorado. Occult enthusiast Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez responded to Farabundo Marti's 1932 peasant uprising in this country by initiating a brutally systematic mass murder of its citizens known as "the slaughter, or la matanza. Roberto D'Aubuisson, the founder of this country's ARENA party, was revealed to be incurably genocidal and implicated in the deaths of Rutilio Grande and Archbishop Oscar Romero. Tensions over the border near the Gulf of Fonseca were ignited by a 1970 FIFA qualifying match, leading this country and Honduras to fight the soccer war. For 10 points, name this Central American country with capital at San Salvador.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: One of this mans works begins with a cello theme that is usually drowned out in performances and supposedly depicts girls dancing at the Prater, while his third symphony includes a slow movement marked Poco allegretto. His String Quartet Number 1 was analyzed in Schoenbergs book (this man) the Progressive. His fourth symphony begins with alternating falling thirds and rising sixths in the violins, imitating that composers earlier Der Tod, das ist die Khlste Nacht, and the fourth movement of that symphony is a chaconne. The last movement of his first symphony, on the other hand, sounds so much like the Ode to Joy that it was nicknamed Beethovens Tenth. Also responsible for variations on themes of Haydn and Handel, for 10 points, name this German contemporary of Wagner who wrote A German Requiem and the Academic Festival Overture.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts