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. 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■ (10[1])

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