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's Fourth Symphony in E Minor contained 30 variations on a theme from J.S. Bach's Cantata No. 150, while his acquaintance with Richard Muhlfeld inspired his Trio for Clarinet and Quintet for Clarinet and Strings. He composed a cantata based on Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered entitled Rinaldo, and collaborated with Dietrich and another composer on the F-A-E Sonata. In 1869, this man composed a series of Love Songs, and in the same year released his two volumes of piano duets based on Gypsy folk tunes, Hungarian Dances. The partner to his Tragic Overture was also composed for the University of Breslau. FTP, identify this composer whose works include A German Requiem and the Academic Festival Overture.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: In 2010, this country opened the Monument of African Renaissance, which was built by North Korean\n laborers and which this country's president claimed a thirty-five percent commission on because it was his\n idea. With its smaller neighbor, this country is the site of over 1,000 stone circles used to mark burial\n mounds. Locations in this country that played an important role in the slave trade include Saint-Louis and\n the site of the Maison des Esclaves, the island of Goree. The Gambia is almost entirely surrounded by this\n country. For 10 points, name this country, home to the westernmost point in Africa and the city of Dakar.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: In one novel from this country, Mr. Sneaze is mocked by the narrator, an extremely formal house cat. The protagonist of another novel from this country claims that his index finger remembers a woman who is learning to play the shamisen despite living with a paralyzed music teacher. In a third novel from this country, a journalist narrates the "sealed moves" in the retirement game of Shusai, who lays down white stones on a board. For 10 points, name this country whose hot springs are a setting for Snow Country, in which I Am a Cat and The Master of Go were written by Natsume Soseki and Yasunari Kawabata.

SOLUTION:
Literature