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 territory invaded during this war asked to borrow gunpowder to salute a ship that had come to conquer it. One island invaded in this war had been overseen by the "Butcher" Weyler. An admiral in this war stated "You may (*) fire when you are ready," prior to beginning the Battle of Manila Bay. One battle in this "splendid little war" saw San Juan Hill charged upon by the Rough Riders and Teddy Roosevelt. Hearst's and Pulitzer's yellow journalism as well as the explosion of the USS Maine helped instigate this war. For 10 points, name this war which led to the capture of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Cuba by the United States.
[EX A]: History

[EX Q]: one work by this man, Fritz wins a great victory by shooting 300,000 wine bottles out of cannons and getting the enemy drunk after the title character sings the "Sabre Song" and promotes him to general. He used the Lysistrata as the basis for The Happiest Girl in the World. In his aria "J'ai des yeux," a magician declares his love for Olympia after watching the inventor Spalanzani wind her up in "The Doll Song. " In another of his works, the Brazillian millionaire Pompa di Matadores and the Swedish noble the Baron de Gondremarck experience the frenetic nightlife of the title city. Saint-Sans borrowed the part of the tortoise in Carnival of the Animals from the "Galop" written by this composer of La Vie Parisienne, who included a "Barcarolle" in an opera which adapts the story "The Sandman. " For 10 points, name this composer of The Tales of Hoffman and Orpheus in the Underworld.
[EX A]: Fine Arts

[EX Q]: This event is represented by Abram sacrificing his son in "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young." In a poem about this event, a boy who is tired of the "crumps and lice and lack of rum" commits suicide. That poem is by Siegfried Sassoon. In an unevenly structured poem describing this event, the speaker invokes blood as "obscene as cancer" and repeats the word "drowning". That speaker cries that the reader would not tell to "children ardent for some desperate glory" the title "old lie" about this event, "Dulce et Decorum est". For 10 points, name this period during which Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for a Doomed Youth" lamented "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle".
[EX A]:
Literature