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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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Works during this man's Serialist period include the choral work The Dove Descending Breaks the Air and Threni along with a piece commemorating the poet Dylan Thomas. Early in his career he wrote songs such as "The Fairy's Kiss" and The Faun and the Shepherdess along with a popular concerto for orchestra known as Fireworks. His operatic works include the one-act work Rossignol and an opera about Nick Shadow with a libretto by W.H. Auden, The Rake's Progress, but he is better known for his Psalm Symphony and ballets like Petruschka. FTP, name this Russian composer of The Rite of Spring and The Firebird.
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Fine Arts

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This compound promotes the dephosphorylation and activation of enzyme HMG-CoA to favor cholesterol synthesis and a phenylalanine for leucine substitution at residue B25 results in its "Chicago" variety. Its biosynthesis involves an excision of the C-peptide, and the compound functions by binding to tyrosine kinase receptors on cell surfaces. Sanger's improvement upon the methods of Edman degradation involved its sequencing, and its production occurs primarily in beta cells on the islets of langerhans. For ten points, name this pancreatic counterpart of glucagon used to regulate blood sugar, deficiencies of which are found in sufferers of diabetes.
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Science

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Appian suggests that the victorious general at this battle organized his manipuli like the rungs of a ladder rather than like the black squares of a chessboard. During the early stages of this conflict the hastati were able to confuse the first rank of Libyans, Gauls and the Balearic contingent and Vermina's apparent failure to arrive on the day of the battle exacerbated one side's cavalry advantage already gained by the additional forces of Dacamas. Fought by the river Bagradas near Naraggara, its dating can be attributed to a statement by Zonaras which suggested one side's fear of solar eclipses. This battle was preceded by Masinissa's capture of the Numidian ruler Syphax and saw the Romans bang on their shields with their swords in order to scare the war elephants. For 10 points, name this decisive 202 B. C. Roman victory that marked the end of the Second Punic War.
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History