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: This composer reworked his ballet Ala i Lolli into the Scythian Suite, and this composer of the Lieutenant Kije Suite styled his first symphony in D major after Haydn, calling it the "Classical Symphony."  The "Dance of the Knights" appears in this composer's ballet Romeo and Juliet. He used an oboe to represent a duck and strings to represent the title character in one tone poem, which also features the bassoon to represent a grandfather and french horns to represent the title animal. For 10 points, name this Russian composer of Peter and the Wolf.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: Wolfgang Kapp's coup was stopped in this city after a general strike. A meeting at this location gave Cyprus to the British, while another meeting here concluded with a General Act that established the Congo as private property. The Glienicke Bridge just outside this city was used to conduct several spy exchanges. Three corridors were used to access this city during one event here, where Operation Little Vittles was conducted. Checkpoint Charlie in this city was a famous part of a structure built here under orders from Walter Ulbricht. For 10 points, identify this capital of the Hohenzollern family of Prussia, split into 4 occupation zones following World War II.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: The protagonist of one of this man's short stories journeys to a newly-formed continent and marries Or, the queen of the birds. Another of this man's stories sees that protagonist duel Lieutenant Fenimore over their shared love for Ursula. The protagonist of one of his novels becomes a double agent for Ataguitania in Ircania and begins identifying with characters like Ermes Marana and Silas Flannery. Another novel by this author ends after Gramo and Buono are sewn back together, thus restoring to life the Viscount Medardo, who'd been split in half by a cannonball. This author of The Cloven Viscount, whose character Qwfwq appears in his collections t zero and Cosmicomics, penned a novel told partially in the second person in which the Reader and Ludmilla uncover a book-publishing conspiracy. For 10 points, name this Italian author of If on a winter's night a traveler.

SOLUTION:
Literature