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 incorporated Eastern ideas, free-jazz tendencies and boundless energy in such pieces as My Favorite Things, Sun Ship and Meditations. His first jazz recordings were with Dizzy Gillespie's band; he joined the original Miles Davis Quintet in 1955, but was booted because of heroin addiction two years later. He then quit heroin, had a religious awakening and rejoined Miles Davis in early 1958. He would leave, however, to form his own quartet. For 10 points-name this tenor saxophonist whose masterwork was 1964's A Love Supreme.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: In this composer's first opera, Arindal gains immortality with Ada. In addition to The Fairies, this man wrote an opera in which the title character rejects the Venusberg and the Pope's staff sprouts leaves; that opera is Tannhauser. Walther performs the "Prize Song" to gain entry in to the title guild in this composer's The (*) Mastersingers of Nuremberg, and this man frequently used the leitmotif. In one of his operas, the Liebestod aria is sung by Isolde over Tristan's dead body, and in another, Brunnhilde appears with the title group after the "Ride of the Valkyries." For 10 points, The Rheingold is the first opera in what German composer's Ring Cycle

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: In a section of this work, the speaker addresses the title creature with the words "Ah you who are silent!". This work that includes "White Bee" describes "white hills, white thighs" in "Body of a Woman". Including "Drunk with Pines" and "Ah Vastness of Pines", this collection ends with the line "It is the hour of departure. Oh abandoned one!". Its final poem accuses the addressee of "swallowing everything" and repeats the lament "in you everything sank!". Its penultimate poem opens "Tonight I can write the saddest lines". For 10 points, name this somewhat erotic collection of romantic poems by Pablo Neruda.

SOLUTION:
Literature