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: A paper he wrote about the geometrical representation of a certain kind of property by means of surfaces so excited Maxwell that he made a model illustrating the method. During the early 1880s, this man worked on a modification of the quaternion which he thought could be adapted into a new system of vector analysis, but it had little impact. He developed an "electrical theory of light" which presumed that light is a disturbance propagating through relatively fine-grained media, while his last work was a treatise on Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics which he completed a year before his death in 1903. His greatest discovery was popularized by the Dutch scientist who experimentally confirmed it, Hendrik Roozeboom. His most famous work was translated by Le Chatelier and Ostwald, and established a basis for the theory of the thermodynamic properties of heterogenous substances. FTP, name this founder of physical chemistry, an American scientist known for his namesake phase rule.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: One composer from this country completed two parts of a projected thirteen-work cycle based on Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil. One man from this country, which is not the Czech Republic, abandoned his opera Roussalka upon being diagnosed with neurasthenia. A Baroque music ensemble led by William Christie takes its name from an opera by another composer from here, and this country names the augmented sixth chord that contains the unaltered second scale degree. One composer from this country used "non-retrogradable" rhythms in the first and sixth movements of his best-known chamber work. That composer also theorized seven (*) "modes of limited transposition" in his book The Technique of My Musical Language and include statue, flower, and love themes in an orchestral work that prominently features the ondes Martenot. Another work by that composer from here contains the "Abyss of the Birds" movement and was composed in a prisoner-of-war camp. For 10 points, name this country, the birthplace of the composer of the Turangalila-Symphonie and the Quartet for the End of Time.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: This country's city of Bellinzona is known for three castles that guarded the route into its Ticino region, and other castles in this country include one in the center of the town of Neuchatel and the Chillon Castle near a city that hosts a popular jazz festival, Montreaux. Tourists are attracted to this country by resorts in Verbier and (*) Zermatt as well as a castle that may have been designed by Leonardo da Vinci in Locarno and the covered Chapel Bridge in Lucerne. Its second most populous city of Basel is located on the Rhine, while the Jura Mountains rise above its city of Lausanne. For 10 points, name this country that is home to Zurich and Geneva.

SOLUTION:
Social Science