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 fleet led by Lourenco de Almeida was among the first Europeans to colonize this modern day nation. One empire in this modern day nation, whose largest ethnic group is known as the Sinhalese, had its capital at Nallur. The Palk Strait is at the northern end of this nation, as is a series of small islands known as (*) Adam's Bridge. The northern tip of this island was also home to this nation's Jaffna kingdom, which ruled at the same time as other empires on this modern country like the Kotte Kingdom and the Kandy Kingdom. For 10 points, name this Asian nation once known as Ceylon.
[EX A]: History

[EX Q]: This man painted a satyr hanging from a tree with his panpipes, while in another of his works, cherubs sit atop a black cloud while Saint Peter sits below next to the Virgin Mary. This artist of The Flaying of Marsyas and The Pesaro Madonna painted (*) cheetahs drawing Bacchus's chariot as he leaps out to protect Ariadne. This artist painted Cupid reaching into a sarcophagus while a bride in white sits opposite Venus in his Sacred and Profane Love. His most famous work shows a dog sleeping on a white sheet beside the title goddess. For 10 points, what Renaissance artist depicted Venus lying on her side in Venus of Urbino
[EX A]: Fine Arts

[EX Q]: This composer called his second symphony a "requiem of wrath" because its third movement features the "Dies Irae" played on the strings at half-tempo and is partially based on the folk song "Brother Hunter" about a mother learning about her son's death. He notably used the flexatone in the "Andante con anima" movement of his piano concerto written in D-Flat Major, while his third symphony is written in only one movement and juxtaposes an organ with fifteen trumpets. His aforementioned second symphony is titled "A Bell" and he wrote suites based on Lope de Vega's The Valencian Widow and Lermontov's Masquerade. One of his best known pieces consists of quick alternations between major and minor sevenths and appears in a work featuring the "The Dance of the Pirates" and "The Dance of the Rose Maidens. " The daughter of Avanes witnesses the death of Giko and helps entrap a spy trying to steal geological secrets in his ballet about a collective farm, which he wrote a decade before Spartacus. For 10 points, name this composer whose ballet Gayane features the "Sabre Dance," who hails from Armenia.
[EX A]:
Fine Arts