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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.
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In this composer's first opera, Arindal gains immortality with Ada. In addition to The Fairies, this man wrote an opera in which the title character rejects the Venusberg and the Pope's staff sprouts leaves; that opera is Tannhauser. Walther performs the "Prize Song" to gain entry in to the title guild in this composer's The (*) Mastersingers of Nuremberg, and this man frequently used the leitmotif. In one of his operas, the Liebestod aria is sung by Isolde over Tristan's dead body, and in another, Brunnhilde appears with the title group after the "Ride of the Valkyries." For 10 points, The Rheingold is the first opera in what German composer's Ring Cycle
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Fine Arts


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This man had a brother named Johann Michael, who was also a notable composer. This composer's two oratorios are called The Seasons and The Creation. This composer's string quartets are compiled into groups such as "Erdody" and "Sun," and because he wrote many of them, he is often called the "Father of String Quartets."  This composer wrote over 100 symphonies, including ones nicknamed "Clock," "Surprise," and "Farewell."  For 10 points, name this Austrian composer often called the "Father of the Symphony."
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Fine Arts


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This mathematician names an integral to compute the number of times a knot may be mapped onto the sphere, giving the linking number. A formula that sets the integral over a manifold's boundary of the geodesic curvature plus the integral over the manifold of his curvature equal to two pi times the Euler characteristic is named for him and for Bonnet. He is the namesake of a probability distribution which maximizes entropy for a given mean and variance; that distribution is followed by the sums of random variables according to the central limit theorem and has the general form e to negative x squared. For 10 points, name this namesake of the normal distribution.
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Science