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: One opera by this composer ends with Death departing and Satyavan coming back to life. In addition to Savitri, he composed the opera At the Boar's Head. Orchestral works by this composer include the Thomas Hardy inspired tone poem Egdon Heath, and a work named for the school where he taught, St. Paul's Suite. The movements "Song of the Blacksmith" and "Fantasia on the Dargason" conclude his Second Suite in F for Military Band. His best-known work was inspired by astrology and contains seven movements, the first of which features an ostinato rhythm in 5/4, and is entitled "Mars, the Bringer of War. " For 10 points, name this English composer of The Planets.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: This man's works have inspired Derek Walcott's The Isle is Full of Noises and Tom Paulin's The Riot Act. He discussed the pain of having one's hair forcibly shorn in a play about the daughter of Salmoneus, Tyro Keiromene. The work Ichneutai, or The Tracking Satyrs, is a rare example of a satyr play by this tragedian. Anthony Hecht mentioned a girl who had read him in a good translation in his "Dover Bitch," but he's better known for a work in which Eurydice kills herself after the deaths of her son and niece and another in which a Theban queen marries her own son. FTP, name this Greek dramatist who wrote Antigone and Oedipus Rex.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: It has been called The Helen of Geometers, because it often caused quarrels among 17th century mathematicians. First studied by Nicholas of Cusa and named by Galileo, it is an example of a roulette curve. It is related to the epitrochoid and hypotrochoid curves, which can be constructed using a Spirograph toy. The solution to both the (*) tautochrone and brachistochrone problems, its area is 3 times that of the generating circle, and its length is 4 times the diameter of the generating circle. FTP, name this curve traced by a fixed point on the edge of a circle rolling along a straight line.

SOLUTION:
Science