Packet 10: Tossup 17

Crédit Mobilier helped a bank run jointly in London, Paris, and this city absorb powerful financier families like the Camondos. This city’s Naum Theatre became a center of Italian opera under the direction of Gaetano Donizetti’s (15[1])brother, Giuseppe. (15[2])In 1910, this city’s mayor infamously rounded up 80,000 dogs (-5[1])and stranded them on an island without food. (15[1])An (15[1])1858 “reorganization” (-5[1])enacted from this city decriminalized (*) homosexuality. The world’s second underground rail line, a funicular (-5[1])known (-5[1])as “the Tunnel,” ran between this city’s modernized (-5[1])neighborhoods of Pera and Galata. (10[1])The (10[1])19th-century (10[4]-5[1])“Straits (10[2])Question” (10[3])concerned (10[1])the passage of (10[1])warships (10[1])at this city, (10[1])where (10[1])a reforming ruler mandated that civil servants wear the fez. For 10 points, the Sublime Porte (10[2])governed the (10[1])“sick man of Europe” (10[1])from what Ottoman capital? ■END■ (10[5])

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