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: He attempted to impart a Middle Eastern flavor to works such as the Nuit persane and his fifth piano concerto, known as the "Egyptian. " This composer of the Spanish-flavored Havanaise also wrote a piece which contrasts a reflective opening with a faster section in which the soloist plays in 2/4 against the orchestra's 6/8. Another work for violin and orchestra by this composer required an E to E flat scordatura tuning, was based on a Henry Cazalis poem, features an oboe near the end symbolizing a rooster call and uses the xylophone to depict rattling bones. For 10 points, name this composer of the Introduction and Rondo Cappricioso, Danse Macabre, and Carnival of the Animals.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: reality program Murder in Small Town X was set in this state. The possibly first American Indian professional baseball player, "Chief" Sockalexis, was born in this state, while another resident of this state asked "Are you going to vote to have a war or not" to Yuri Andropov. That resident was the schoolgirl Samantha Smith. A film featuring Betty White as the vulgar Mrs. Bickerman and involving killer crocodiles is not set in New York's Lake Placid, but actually in this state. This state is home to such fictional residents as Sheriff Mort Metzger and Dr. Seth Hazlitt, who assist Jessica Fletcher in solving mysteries, while a medical doctor named Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce is also from this state. Featuring such fictional cities as Cabot Cove and Crabapple Cove, this state is also the setting of much of the writings of Sarah Orne Jewett and Stephen King. For 10 points, name this New England state with capital at Augusta.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: Robert Orme wrote that the victorious general at this battle voted against action at a June 21 council of war, but after meditating in a grove for an hour returned and called for battle the next day. The losing leader at this battle had been beset by intrigues led by Ghaseti Begum, who had desired her nephew Shawkat Jang to have his title, and Begum had enlisted the merchant Umichand and banker Jagat Sheth to bribe one of the losing leader's generals, a payment transacted in that general's woman's quarters. The victorious general's attack violated the Alinagar Treaty, so named for the new designation of Fort William, where it was signed after the losing leader at this battle took Calcutta. The battle itself turned when a cannon blast killed General Mir Mardan and Mir Jafar, having been bribed, would not support the Nawab Siraj ad-Daula. For 10 points, name this 1757 battle won by forces of the British East India Company led by Robert Clive.

SOLUTION:
History