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.

[EX Q]: A definitive study on this engagement was authored by Hugh Cole, who devotes a section to discussing the Losheim Gap. It also stresses the importance of the oft-overlooked Operation Bodenplatte carried out on a holiday and alternately known as Operation Hermann. The clash saw the murder of the Wereth 11, a group of waylaid black soldiers, and courageous stands at St. Vith and Bastogne, which turned the fight and made up for failure to garner intelligence through ULTRA. Anthony McAuliffe became famous for his reply of "Nuts" and Patton for his diary statement that it was "lovely weather for killing Germans. " FTP, name this final German offensive of World War II also known as the Battle of the Ardennes.
[EX A]: History

[EX Q]: One member of this phylum, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, is often used to study developmental processes, and another, Pisaster ochraceus, is an example of a keystone species. Most members of this phylum have pedicellariae that possess three jaws, and some have a chewing apparatus known as Aristotle's lantern. Members of class Asteroidea of this phylum have an ambulacral groove, and the madreporite is the entrance to their water vascular system that includes tube feet. FTP name this phylum whose "spiny skinned" members have radial symmetry and include sand dollars, sea urchins, and sea stars.
[EX A]: Social Science

[EX Q]: This composer wrote the musical ode "Come ye Sons of Art" for the birthday of a monarch and set text by Nicholas Brady to music in his Ode to St. Cecilia. This composer utilized a quartet of Flatt trumpets for a march in another work. In addition to composing music for the funeral of Mary II, this student of (*) John Blow collaborated with Nahum Tate on an opera with an aria addressed to Belinda. This composer's Abdelazar was quoted by Benjamin Britten in The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. He wrote an opera containing the aria "When I am laid in earth," which is also called the "lament" of the title Queen of Carthage. For 10 points, name this English Baroque composer of Dido and Aeneas.
[EX A]:
Fine Arts