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: This composer's Fourth Symphony in E Minor contained 30 variations on a theme from J.S. Bach's Cantata No. 150, while his acquaintance with Richard Muhlfeld inspired his Trio for Clarinet and Quintet for Clarinet and Strings. He composed a cantata based on Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered entitled Rinaldo, and collaborated with Dietrich and another composer on the F-A-E Sonata. In 1869, this man composed a series of Love Songs, and in the same year released his two volumes of piano duets based on Gypsy folk tunes, Hungarian Dances. The partner to his Tragic Overture was also composed for the University of Breslau. FTP, identify this composer whose works include A German Requiem and the Academic Festival Overture.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: In the Corey-Bakshi-Shibata catalyst, an atom of it is attached to a pyrrole ring, an oxygen atom, and a toluene group. This element's acids are combined with amines and ketones in the Petasis reaction and in combining alkyl halides through the Suzuki coupling. Complexes containing it are called sido or arachno according to Wade's rules, and a more famous reaction using it is sometimes named for Herbert Brown. Mined from the ore Uletite, its silicate was once used in making hard glass for manufacturing laboratory equipment. For 10 points, name this element that participates in an anti-markonikov addition reaction to alkenes, with atomic number 5 and symbol B.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: During his first meeting with Richard Wagner he refused to sit down out of respect for his musical hero. His first major musical work, Requiem in D minor, was written while teaching at St. Florian in Austria. In 1856, he moved to Linz, and while there he composed a version of Ave Maria and his Mass in D Major. He dedicated his Third Symphony to Wagner but its 1877 premier was a failure - only 25 people remained in the auditorium by the end. FTP, identify this composer of the more favorably received Fourth or "Romantic" Symphony, who is sometimes better known for his Zeroth Symphony.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts