Round 2: Tossup 5

These objects name many successful vintages of wine beginning with one at Sauternes’s Chateau d’Yquem. The idea of the virtuous atheist is promoted in “Various Thoughts” on one of these objects written by 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. A 2012 musical titled for one of these objects by Dave Malloy starred Josh Groban and adapts that subplot from War and Peace in which one (10[1])ignites Pierre’s love for Natasha. Mark Twain’s birth and death dates coincided with one of these (10[1])objects whose first known depiction is on the Bayeux Tapestry. For 10 points, what astronomical objects include one with a roughly 76-year period named for Edmond Halley? ■END■

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