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.
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Question: In the aria Mal reggendo, one character in this opera relates how a strange voice stopped his hand from killing his opponent in a duel in Act 1. The arias Di due figli and Abbietta zingara are used by one character to narrate a ghost story to a gathering which is dispersed by the ringing of a bell. In Prima che d'altri vivere, the protagonist bids farewell to his lover after she poisons herself. After the first act in which Ferrando conjures the image of a baby burnt alive on a pyre, Chi del gitano i giorni abbella, or the Anvil Chorus, is sung by a group of gypsies. After the death of Leonora, the mother of Azucena is avenged when Count di Luna orders the execution of the title character Manrico. FTP, name this opera by Giuseppe Verdi.

Answer: Fine Arts

Question: In one of this author's short stories, the title character is killed after taking a boy hostage, after which his body is dumped in an unused mine and stinks up the village. In addition to The Catch, this author has recently completed the trilogy The Flaming Green Tree, a work he claims will be his last. Other works by him include a four-volume collection that contains a story about the boy Eeyore, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, and a novel about children who are taken to a remote village after a plague breaks out. The birth of Bird's child with a brain hernia parallels this man's own experiences with his retarded son and is central to his A Personal Matter. FTP, identify this author of Nip the Bud, Shoot the Kids, who also wrote about the brothers Mitsu and Takashi in The Silent Cry.

Answer: Literature

Question: Acids of this element are used with a palladium catalyst to carry out the Suzuki reaction. Its hydrides add in THF solution to alkenes and are oxidized by peroxides in a reaction named for Brown. The structures of those hydrides of this element can be predicted using (*) Wade's rules. It may be found in the fibrous mineral ulexite. Its enriched 10 isotope is used to capture thermal neutrons in nuclear reators. Along with helium-3, this element is used to detect ionizing radiation in Geiger counters, and it violates the "octet rule" since it can form bonds using only its three valence electrons. For 10 points, name this metalloid with atomic number 5 and symbol B.

Answer:
Science