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The fall of this city displaced a husband-and-wife team of poets who pioneered epigraphy in their Catalog of Bronze and Stone Inscriptions. The penultimate ruler based in this city, (10[1])who was awarded the mocking title “Duke of Muddled Virtue,” pretended (-5[1])that a stroke had paralyzed his right arm to force his son, the “Doubly Muddled Marquis,” onto the throne. After this city was captured in violation of the “Alliance Conducted at Sea,” (-5[1])retreating (10[1])forces coalesced under the tattooed general Yuè Fēi (“y’weh fay”). The scroll painting Along the River During the Qīngmíng (-5[1])Festival likely depicts the splendor of this capital city before (10[1])its final two emperors, Qīnzōng (“cheen-dzong”) and Huīzōng (10[1]-5[1])(“hway-dzong”), were captured in the Jìngkāng Incident. (10[1])This city (10[1])was sacked by the Jurchen Jīn dynasty (10[1]-5[1])in 1127. For 10 points, (10[1])name this capital of the Northern Sòng (10[1]-5[1])dynasty, (10[1])where Persian merchants (10[1])established a small community (10[1])of Jews. (10[1])■END■ (10[8])

ANSWER: Kāifēng [or Biànjīng] (The husband-and-wife team of poets were Zhào Míngchéng and Lǐ Qīngzhào.)
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