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 used "La Follia" as the basis for his last original solo piano composition, Variations on a Theme of Corelli. Unsatisfied with his revisions of his second piano sonata, he gave Horowitz authority to change it however he pleased. Glazunov's drunken conducting of his first symphony sent him into a three-year-long depression, which he once consulted Tolstoy about. He wrote an Elegiac Trio after the death of Tchaikovsky, who was set to conduct his symphonic fantasy The Rock. He referred to his third piano concerto, written for his first American tour, as "a piece for elephants". A painting by Bocklin inspired his Isle of the Dead, and he also set Poe's The Bells to music. FTP, identify this Russian composer who used a caprice for solo violin as the basis for arguably his most famous work, Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: This person learned her craft under Richard H. White, and also spent some time as the apprentice of Arnold H. Gethe. Along with Walker Evans, this person contributed to Richard Wrights history, Twelve Million Black Voices. She covered the relocation of internees at Manzanar, which included a particularly haunting photograph of a group of girls pledging allegiance to the flag. However, shes probably most famous for her work under the Farm Security Administration, which included a photograph of Florence Owens Thompson and her two children. FTP, name this photographer of Migrant Mother.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: This monarch chartered the Levant Company and established relations with the Ottoman Empire, and the Moroccan ambassador to this ruler's court was Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud. This ruler was excommunicated for the Second Act of Supremacy by the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis. This ruler's primary advisor was William Cecil, and her spymaster Francis Walsingham stopped the [*] Babington Plot. This ruler ordered the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. She never married, earning her the title of "Virgin Queen." For 10 points, name this patroness of Shakespeare who defended England against the Spanish Armada.

SOLUTION:
History