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.

[Q]: A fleet led by Lourenco de Almeida was among the first Europeans to colonize this modern day nation. One empire in this modern day nation, whose largest ethnic group is known as the Sinhalese, had its capital at Nallur. The Palk Strait is at the northern end of this nation, as is a series of small islands known as (*) Adam's Bridge. The northern tip of this island was also home to this nation's Jaffna kingdom, which ruled at the same time as other empires on this modern country like the Kotte Kingdom and the Kandy Kingdom. For 10 points, name this Asian nation once known as Ceylon.
[A]: History


[Q]: One work of his, the colossal Saint John the Evangelist currently resides in the Duomo of Florence, but from its creation until 1588, it occupied a place in the faade of the Baptistery, a building which this artist's mentor, Lorenzo Ghiberti, had designed. Following his work on Saint John, he worked on a statue of St. Mark for the Orsanmichele church, where he would also create a statue of Saint George several years later. While working on the sculpture Habbakuk, or Zuccone, he is alleged to have repeatedly muttered "Speak, Damn you, Speak" at the marble he was working with. For ten points, identify this 15th-century artist and sculptor of the Equestrian Monument of Gattamelata and the Bronze David.  
[A]: Fine Arts


[Q]: One character in this work buys muriatic acid to prepare aqua regia in order to gold-plate keys, while another character rolls around in that acid with her Belgian aviator husband, Gaston. An Italian dance teacher in this work who arrives to tune the pianola, Pietro Crespi, becomes the love interest of both Rebeca and Amaranta. The seventeen illegitimate sons of one character are killed after Ash Wednesday crosses become permanent on their foreheads, and the central familys downfall is predicted by the gypsy Melquiadess manuscript. For 10 points, name this work featuring Don Arcadio and Colonel Aureliano, a work set in Macondo about the Buendias, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
[A]:
Literature