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 one opera by this composer set in Stockholm, the fortune-teller Ulrica prophesizes that Riccardo will be killed by the next man who shakes his hand. This composer of A Masked Ball included "Va, pensiero," or the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, in an opera which details the exile of the Jews from Babylon, Nabucco. In addition to the drinking song "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" in an opera about Alfredo and Violetta, this composer wrote an opera which sees the Duke of Mantua sing "La donna e mobile" and another opera about an Egyptian princess. For 10 points, name this Italian composer of Rigoletto, La traviata, and Aida.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: The relationship between temperature and this quantity is given by the Steinhart-Hart equation. Tunnel diodes have a negative value for this quantity, whose changes are measured by the most common type of strain gauge. The proximity and skin effects cause increases in this quantity with increasing frequency. The time constant tau is equal to indudctance divided by this quantity in an RL circuit. An unknown value of this quantity can be determined with a Wheatstone bridge. This quantity is the real part of impedance in AC circuits, and it is equal to voltage divided by current. For 10 points, name this opposition to the flow of current that is measured in ohms.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: Among the minor speaking roles are those of the faithful servant Adam and Hymen, the god of marriage, who conducts the four marriages that end this work. Two of those marriages involve the women Audrey and Phoebe, the latter of which finally succumbs to Silvius' affections. The other two involve characters who disguise themselves as Aliena and Ganymede before they fall in love with Oliver and Orlando. Much of the action takes place in the Forest of Ardenne in which Celia and Rosalind briefly take a cottage. FTP, identify this Shakespeare play, the source of the line "All the world's a stage and the men and women merely players. "

SOLUTION:
Literature