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 party in this conflict was led for part of it by the namesake of a battleship famous in a later conflict, the Duke of Caxias. This clash was precipitated by the ouster of Atansio Aguirre. Victory at Curupayty forestalled defeat for the eventual losers, whose fate was practically sealed after the naval Battle of Riachuelo. This war's namesake treaty was the brainchild of Bartolom Mitre, who favored the Colorado Party over the Blanco Party in Uruguay. FTP, name this conflict in which Paraguay under Francisco Solano Lpez was eventually defeated by the namesake entity, consisting of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: A character created by this author socializes with Billy through sex with Billy's sister Trudy. In a story by this author, one character achieves masculinity by shooting a lion right before he is shot by his wife; that story features a triangle between Margot, Wilson, and Francis Macomber. His works often feature the theme of "nada" and follow the iceberg theory in omitting detail. He created a character who escapes the battle police and falls in love with Catherine Barkley, and he quoted Gertrude Stein on the Lost Generation for one novel's epitaph. For 10 points, name this writer who created Frederic Henry and Jake Barnes in A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: This composer's first symphony, which he submitted and resubmitted for criticism to his teacher Nikolai Zaremba, nearly led to his mental breakdown. This man used his material from his unpublished opera Undine in the second movement of his C-minor second symphony, whose basis in Ukrainian folk songs led to a nickname coined by Nikolai Kashkin. This composer's final symphony, which contains a (*) "limping waltz" in 5/4 time, was premiered just nine days before his death and dedicated to his homosexual lover. For 10 points, name this composer of the symphonies nicknamed Little Russian, Winter Daydreams, and Pathetique, who also composed the "1812 Overture."

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts