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: This country's early railways include the spiral tunnels of the Gotthard line, and its Glacier Express railroad has a terminus at St. Moritz. This home of the vineyard terraces at Lavaux ("luh-VOE") is home to a castle where Lord Byron's poem "The Prisoner of Chillon" is set. This country hosts the yearly World Economic Forum at Davos. This country includes about eighty thousand speakers of Romansh, its fourth official language. For 10 points, name this landlocked European country home to Lake Lucerne, whose Alps include the north face of the Matterhorn.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: In one book, he suggests that architects should employ their childlike reactions when designing buildings and targets the architect of the Fisher Building. This man protested the classical architectural style of the Columbian Exposition by designing a building with a massive foil-covered "Golden Door." In addition to the Transportation Building, he designed a red-brick building with two arches that is inlaid with terracotta in Owatonna. That building, the National Farmer's (*) Bank, is one of his namesake "Jewel Boxes." A frieze with bulls-eye windows is found below the cornice of his most famous building, a ten-story collaboration with Dankmar Adler. That building, found in St. Louis, is considered one of the first skyscrapers. For 10 points, name this architect of the Wainwright Building who said, "form follows function."

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts