Packet 2: Tossup 5

These objects name many successful vintages of wine (15[1])beginning with one at Sauternes’s Chateau (15[1])d’Yquem. (15[1])The idea of the virtuous atheist is promoted in “Various Thoughts” on one of these objects written by (15[1])Pierre Bayle. In a novel, one of these objects responds to a man’s “softened and uplifted soul, now blossoming into a new life” after he consoles a woman whose broken engagement has driven her to (*) attempt suicide. (10[1])A 2012 musical titled for one of these objects by Dave Malloy (10[1])starred Josh Groban (10[2])and adapts (10[1])that subplot (10[2]-5[1])from War and Peace (10[7]-5[1])in which (10[2]-5[1])one (10[9])ignites (10[4])Pierre’s (10[1])love (10[1])for Natasha. Mark (10[1])Twain’s birth and death dates (10[2])coincided with one (10[1])of these (10[1])objects whose first known depiction is on (10[1])the Bayeux Tapestry. For 10 points, what astronomical objects include one with a roughly 76-year period named for Edmond Halley? ■END■ (10[2])

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