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.

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.
Science

His reign saw both the publication of the legal treatise Quadripartitus and the earliest surviving European kingdom-wide financial survey, and the exchequer originated at Winchester at the behest of his minister Roger of Salisbury. He fined William de Mandeville for allowing the escape of Ranulf Flambard from the Tower of London, and he had earlier ceded custody of Cotenin to his brother Robert Curthose to avoid war. The wreck of the White Ship resulted in the death of his only legitimate heir, William theling, and his childless marriage to Adeliza of Louvain resulted in his succession by Stephen of Blois. For 10 points, name this man who won the lordship of Normandy in the battle of Tinchebrai, king of England from 1100 to 1135 and the first Norman ruler not named William.
History

Edmund Whites The Beautiful Room is Empty takes its name from a letter this man wrote to Milena Jesenska. One of his stories discusses the mythic belief in the Chinese empire in small towns, The Great Wall of China, while another concerns a man who dies in the Black Forest but is left on Earth by the pilot of his death ship, The Hunter Gracchus. More famous are a story where an ape finds a way out onto the variety stage and one where an unnamed officer shows an explorer a Harrow that cuts the name of a criminals crime into his skin, and then must lie in it himself. FTP, name this author of Report to an Academy and In the Penal Colony, as well as The Trial.

Literature

