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: Though he was a strongly nationalist composer, he found his own musical language in Paris after studying with Ravel for 3 months. This French influence is apparent in his first string quartet in G minor, and a song cycle for tenor, string quartet, and piano that took its title from the first of the six poems of Housmans A Shropshire Lad. Near the outbreak of World War II he adapted words from The Merchant of Venice for his Serenade to Music and also wrote Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus. His first symphony contains text by Walt Whitman and his seventh depicts impressions of life on Antarctica, while a poem by Meredith inspired his romance for violin and orchestra, The Lark Ascending. FTP, name this English composer of Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: sum of the squares of the reciprocals of this function evaluated at the nonnegative integers is equal to the modified Bessel function of the first kind at x=2. The Leviathan Number is found by evaluating this function at 10 to the 666th power. The rising type can be represented with the Pochhammer Symbol. Wilson's Theorem states that this function of any prime minus 1 is also congruent to -1 modulo that prime. Legendre's theorem provides a corollary to determine the number of (*) trailing zeroes of this function evaluated at nonnegative integers. When this function is evaluated at large numbers, Stirling's approximation is used. The gamma function extends this function to all complex numbers other than negative integers. For 10 points, name this function that, for positive integers n, is the product from 1 to n, and which is represented by an exclamation point.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: This man's father was a noted pigeon enthusiast who died while in a pigeon house as it fell off a cliff. This man also pioneered the mubayyin verse form, which can be seen in his book of the same name. When the astrologer Muhammad Sharif predicted that this man would decisively lose a battle at Khanua, this man vowed not to touch wine and ordered all his booze to be dumped down a well to boost his troops' morale. After the defeat of the kingdom of Herat by the Uzbeks, this Timurid established a weak kingdom in Kabul. Dilawar Khan and Alam Khan had approached this man to seek his help in defeating Ibrahim of the Lodi dynasty, which he easily accomplished at the Battle of Panipat. For 10 points, identify this father of Humayun and founder of the Mughal dynasty.

SOLUTION:
History