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 reworked his ballet Ala i Lolli into the Scythian Suite, and this composer of the Lieutenant Kije Suite styled his first symphony in D major after Haydn, calling it the "Classical Symphony." The "Dance of the Knights" appears in this composer's ballet Romeo and Juliet. He used an oboe to represent a duck and strings to represent the title character in one tone poem, which also features the bassoon to represent a grandfather and french horns to represent the title animal. For 10 points, name this Russian composer of Peter and the Wolf.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: The last thing he wrote before his suicide was a story entitled "Gleanings From" his most famous work, the longest of his "palm-of-the-hand" stories. David Henry Hwang wrote this man into a theatrical adaptation of this author's House of the Sleeping Beauties, written after his novel about the twin daughters of kimono salesmen, The Old Capital. Other novels by him deal with the six-month contest between Ottake and Shusai, and with the love of Shimmamura for a northern geisha. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of The Master of Go and Snow Country.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: The Rodrigues formula and Hermite polynomials figure into the analytic method for finding the wavefunctions of these systems. The allowed energies for these systems can be calculated using the ladder operators. A quantity determining peakedness for energy graphs of these systems is the dimensionless quality factor. Their behavior can be split into transient and steady-state motions when they are subjected to a sinusoidal driving force and a simple damping force, and they exhibit resonance at certain frequencies. For 10 points, name this kind of system whose periodic, sinusoidal motion is described by Hookes law, examples of which include a mass on a spring and a simple pendulum.

SOLUTION:
Science