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: In one work of this composer, a "drinking chorus" is preceded by tone painting of the baying of hounds via double grace notes in the strings, trombones, and horns, which directly quote hunting calls. In another of his works, C minor is associated with the Vorstellung, and the keys of B-flat and E-flat are representative of humanity. His other religious works include his "Great Organ" Mass and the somewhat programmatic Mass in Distress and Mass in Time of War. His Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major written for Anton Weidiger was one of the few to be written for the keyed trumpet, and his Opus 20 group of six string quartets is commonly referred to as the "Sun" Quartets. His symphonies include one whose first movement's second theme in B-flat imitates a clucking of a chicken and one which instructs the musicians to leave as they complete their parts during the last movement. FTP, name this Austrian composer of the "Farewell" Symphony, the Paris Symphonies, and the London Symphonies, which include the "Surprise".

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: Several of his early works, including such operas as Cleonice, Demofoonte, and Artaserse, were written with librettist Pietro Metastasio. He had begun composing an opera based on the Song of Roland, but the discovery that Niccolo Piccini was given the same libretto to work on sparked a rivalry in the Parisian press and motivated him to compose Armide. Collaboration with the librettist Calzabigi resulted in the composition of the ballets Semiramide and Don Juan, as well as an opera featuring the "Dance of the Blessed Spirits" and another in whose preface he declared his intent to "restrict music to its true office of serving poetry. " FTP, identify this German classical composer of "reform" operas such as Alceste and Orfeo et Euridice.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: The Presbyterian Church was established in this modern-day country by Canadian missionary and teeth-pulling enthusiast George Mackay. A duck farmer briefly took control of this nation during a 1721 rebellion. Dutch troops were murdered in 1629 in Madou in this country. General Instruments set up an electronic assembly plant in this country's pioneering > export-processing zone, and its namesake economic miracle produced tech companies like BenQ. After a bystander was killed in fight between police and a cigarette smuggler in this country, a crowd gathered the next day and staged the (*) 2-28 protest, which ultimately spawned the forty-year White Terror. The ruling party in this country lost out to a rival group which went on the Long March. For 10 points, name this island nation ruled by the Kuomingtang.

SOLUTION:
History