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.

[EX Q]: 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
[EX A]: Fine Arts

[EX Q]: In later life this mythological figure left Argos and arrived after some journeys in southern Italy, where he supposedly founded several cities. The son of Tydeus and Deipyle, this man was one of the Epigoni before going to Troy, where he nearly killed Aeneas in combat, killed both Rhesus and Dolon, helped smuggle the Palladium out of Troy, and even managed to wound the god Ares in battle. Name this character of Greek myth who shares his name with a king of Thrace known, FTP, for his flesh-eating mares, to whom he fed the bodies of his houseguests until he himself was fed to them by Heracles.
[EX A]: Social Science

[EX Q]: One character created by this author has a heart attack while playing in a cimbalom band after organizing the poorly attended Ride of the Kings. A character in another of this authors novels abides by the rule of threes for committing infidelity and is given the epitaph He wanted the Kingdom of God on Earth after dying in a car accident while working at a dairy collective. Ludvik Jahn writes Optimism is the opium of the people! on a postcard, resulting in his expulsion from the Communist Party in this authors The Joke. For 10 points, name this Czech author who wrote about the photographer Terezas relationship with the Tomas in The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
[EX A]:
Literature