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.

It causes the weak bluish white glow in polls of water that shield some nuclear reactors. It is created by highly energetic charged particles that displace electrons in the medium through which they travel, and the subsequent electromagnetic wave in the wake of these particles is similar to the bow wave of a fast boat. FTP, what is this light produced when charged particles move through a medium faster than the speed of light in that medium
Science

The last thing he wrote before his suicide was a story entitled "Gleanings From" his most famous work, the longest of his "palm-of-the-hand" stories. David Henry Hwang wrote this man into a theatrical adaptation of this author's House of the Sleeping Beauties, written after his novel about the twin daughters of kimono salesmen, The Old Capital. Other novels by him deal with the six-month contest between Ottake and Shusai, and with the love of Shimmamura for a northern geisha. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of The Master of Go and Snow Country.
Literature

This war is the setting of a story which ends with a man callously shouting "Victory! Victory!" near a woman kneeling between the bodies of her husband and her father. In another story about this war, a watchmaker and a haberdasher cry and shake hands before being executed for refusing to give the password that let them access their favorite fishing spot. The collaborative collection Evenings at Medan consists of stories about this war, including "The Attack on the Mill. A soldier in this war exclaims "Let us explode a mine!" before destroying priceless paintings and porcelain in an (*) abandoned mansion, in a story whose heroine rings a long-silent bell after stabbing the title character with a cheese-knife. In the best-known story about this war, a woman who offers food from a picnic basket is coerced into sleeping with an officer so that a stagecoach can continue on to Le Havre. For 10 points, name this war, portrayed realistically in "Two Friends," "Mademoiselle Fifi," "Ball of Fat," and other stories by Guy de Maupassant.

Literature