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: When these devices exploit their voltage-dependent variable capacitance they are known as varactors. Barring the creation of local hot spots, a non-destructive avalanche current is produced by electron-hole pair propagation when the electric field within the (*) depletion region of these devices reaches a critical value. Majority carriers exist in an energy state greater than the Fermi energy in the Schottky barrier variety and those that operate in reverse breakdown are named after Zener. For 10 pointsname these devices that allow current to pass in only one direction.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: In 2010, this country opened the Monument of African Renaissance, which was built by North Korean
laborers and which this country's president claimed a thirty-five percent commission on because it was his
idea. With its smaller neighbor, this country is the site of over 1,000 stone circles used to mark burial
mounds. Locations in this country that played an important role in the slave trade include Saint-Louis and
the site of the Maison des Esclaves, the island of Goree. The Gambia is almost entirely surrounded by this
country. For 10 points, name this country, home to the westernmost point in Africa and the city of Dakar.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: Elected to the priesthood of the augurs over Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, he served under Aulus Gabinius in Judaea and Egypt and would later be deified as the New Dionysus. The commander of the left wing at the Battle of Pharsalus, while besieging Brutus Albinus at Modena, he was attacked by a coalition led by Octavian and the consuls. Distinguishing himself at the Battle of Philippi, after losing at Actium, he committed suicide. FTP, identify this member of the second triumvirate and ally of Cleopatra.

SOLUTION:
History