Round 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 brother, Giuseppe. (15[1])In 1910, this city’s mayor infamously rounded up 80,000 dogs and stranded them on an island without food. An 1858 “reorganization” enacted from this city decriminalized (*) homosexuality. The world’s second underground rail line, a funicular known as “the Tunnel,” ran between this city’s modernized neighborhoods of Pera and Galata. The 19th-century “Straits Question” concerned the passage of warships at this city, where a reforming ruler mandated that civil servants wear the fez. For 10 points, the Sublime Porte governed the “sick man of Europe” from what Ottoman capital? ■END■

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