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: Norman and Jensen created triangles in which they plot chemical species according to this quantity. In one model of this quantity, electrons distribute to minimize it. Besides the Allred-Rochow definition, Mulliken's original definition of this quantity involved taking the mean of the(*) electron affinity and the first ionization energy. Dissociation energies between two elements are used to calculate the Pauling scale of this quantity, on which fluorine has the highest value. For 10 points, name this property that refers to an atom's ability to attract electrons.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: The relationship between temperature and this quantity is given by the Steinhart-Hart equation. Tunnel diodes have a negative value for this quantity, whose changes are measured by the most common type of strain gauge. The proximity and skin effects cause increases in this quantity with increasing frequency. The time constant tau is equal to indudctance divided by this quantity in an RL circuit. An unknown value of this quantity can be determined with a Wheatstone bridge. This quantity is the real part of impedance in AC circuits, and it is equal to voltage divided by current. For 10 points, name this opposition to the flow of current that is measured in ohms.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: An author from this country wrote a novel about the rhetorician Gabriel Santoro harshly criticizing A Life in Exile, a book written by his son, also named Gabriel Santoro. That author of The Informers is named Juan Gabriel Vasquez. Another author from this country wrote a novella about a lonely retired military man who lives with his wife and a rooster which he is training for a cockfight. That author also wrote a novel in which the two brothers of Angela Vicario murder Santiago Nasar. This country is home to the author of No One Writes to the Colonel, whose most famous novel takes place in the town of Macondo and follows the Buendia family. For 10 points, name this country home to the author of Chronicle of a Death Foretold and One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

SOLUTION:
Literature