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]: This poet wrote The firefly wakens; waken thou with me in his poem Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal. The title objects of one poem are described as Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail / That brings our friends up from the underworld, and another poem starts with the line the wood decays, and woods decay and fall. In addition to Tears, Idle Tears and Tithonus, the title character of one poem comments much have I seen ands knowncities of men and later declares he needs to strive, to seek to, and not to yield. and another poem includes the assertion Theirs not to reason why / Theirs but to do and die. For 10 points, name this Victorian poet who wrote Ulysses and The Charge of the Light Brigade.
[A]: Literature


[Q]: This man wrote the most emblematic novel of a literary movement that was named for a Frederick Klinger play about the American Revolution. A polymath, he also wrote scientific works such as the Essays on the Metamorphosis of Plants and a Theory of Colors. A homunculus suggests the idea of summoning Helen of Troy to Mephistopheles, who tempts Faust, in one of his plays. For 10 points, name this German Sturm und Drang author who wrote of the suicide of Lotte's lover in The Sorrows of Young Werther.
[A]:
Fine Arts