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: 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.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: One opera by this composer ends with Death departing and Satyavan coming back to life. In addition to Savitri, he composed the opera At the Boar's Head. Orchestral works by this composer include the Thomas Hardy inspired tone poem Egdon Heath, and a work named for the school where he taught, St. Paul's Suite. The movements "Song of the Blacksmith" and "Fantasia on the Dargason" conclude his Second Suite in F for Military Band. His best-known work was inspired by astrology and contains seven movements, the first of which features an ostinato rhythm in 5/4, and is entitled "Mars, the Bringer of War. " For 10 points, name this English composer of The Planets.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: This man's only opera was The Maiden in the Tower, though a later work was originally the prelude to the never-realized opera The Creation of the Boat. He wrote incidental music to plays like Everyman and Strindberg's fairy-drama Swanwhite, while tone poems include Nightride and Sunrise and The Dryad. "A Spring in the Park" and "Three Blind Sisters" are among the eight movements of his incidental music to Pelleas et Melisande. This composer of seven symphonies honored his home province in his Karelia Suite, though he is better-known for mythical pieces like Kullervo and The Swan of Tuonela. For 10 points, name this composer of Finlandia.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts