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TOSSUPS CENTER OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE OPEN 1998 Combined packet of Tennessee I and UTC Blue 1. Headquarted in Haifa, Israel, it began in 1844 in Iran. It teaches that the revealed religions of the world are in agreement and that each of the prophet-founders of the religions revealed the will of God for a particular time and place in history. FTP name this pacifist religion, of which the prophet-founder is the Baha Ullah. Bahai 2. He ran for Congress after answering an ad placed by the local Republican Party. He won by branding incumbent Jerry Voorhis a Communist sympathizer, and the tactic worked so well he used it in 1950 to unseat Sen. Helen Gahagan Douglas. Confronted for the first time with campaign financial improprieties in 1952, he saved his spot as Eisenhower’s running mate with the famed “Checkers” speech. FTP name this President, who ran out of convincing speeches by the time he declared himself not a crook. Answer: Richard Nixon 3. On this planet, when the sun rises at the north pole, it stays up for 42 Earth years; then it sets, and naturally the north pole gets 42 Earth years of darkness. It has at least 15 moons and 9 narrow, nearly opaque rings. FTP name this severly tilted planet, discovered by Sir William Herschel in 1781. Uranus 4. He made his name in Italy as a composer of operas, composing nine between 1904 and 1935, and in 1919 he was commissioned by Diaghilev to arrange andorchestrate the ballet La Boutique fantastique from Rossinis original music. However, he is best known for his series of impressionistic tone poems, which owe much to Rimsky-Korsakov, from whom he took compostion lessons. FTP, name this Italian composer whose best known works include Roman Festivals (1929), Three Botticelli Pictures (1927), The Fountains of Rome (1917), and The Pines of Rome (1924). Ottorino Respighi 5. Following a visit to Greece, which he took while writing an adaptation of Daphnis and Chloe, he began a strenuou