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.

[Q]: This work premiered as part of a charity concert series and was troubled by last-minute rearrangements and other production difficulties. After various demands from Jonathan Swift, the dean of St. Patricks Cathedral, the work was finally allowed to premiere on April 13, 1741 in Dublin. The work is divided into three parts, all dealing with different aspects of the life of what the composer considered the title entity. Famous arias from the work include I know that my Redeemer liveth, and Every Valley shall be exalted. The finale chorus of the work is borrowed from Revelation, while a good deal of the remaining libretto is taken from the Old Testament. FTP, name this oratorio by George Frederic Handel, most famous for the chorus Hallelujah.
[A]: Fine Arts


[Q]: Martin and Primavesi recently discovered a fragment of this thinkers treatise On Nature. This man wrote the poem Katharmoi, but Aristotle excluded this mans works from the Poetics because while it was written in hexameter, it does not characterize its subject matter as a representation of life. OBrien, Wright, and Aristotle all claimed that this man adhered to a cyclical view of the universe, and this thinker also argued that human limbs once lived on their own. He wrote an autobiography known as the Purifications, in which he said that he was a vegetarian because animals contain transmigrated human souls. This man believed that all matter was once a sphere, which dissolved into the present world. He argued that neikos and philia drove the world, with strife separating substances and love bringing them together. This Sicilian is said to have died by throwing himself into Mt. Etna. For ten points, name this pre-Socratic philosopher who argued that the world was divided into four elements: water, earth, wind, and fire.
[A]: Social Science


[Q]: In this author's most recent work, LA cop Bigfoot Bjornsen manipulates hippie private investigator "Doc" Sportello to go after the Golden Fang. His penultimate book features the reading dog Pugnax, who belongs to the Chums of Chance, who visit the Chicago World's fair. Besides writing Inherent Vice and Against the Day, this novelist described the secret machinations of followers of the Tristero as uncovered by Oedipa Maas in one short novel, while in his debut novel he chronicled Benny Profane's attempts to capture an albino alligator in New York's sewers. These plot summaries can't do justice to, FTP, The Crying of Lot 49 and V., written by what author of Gravity's Rainbow
[A]:
Literature