Benjamin Franklin - 2023 BHSU

Question

In the essay “Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind,” this writer argued that the amount of unfarmed land in America would lead to exponential population growth. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this colonial-era American demographer whose prediction of the population doubling every 25 years was later quoted by Thomas Malthus in An Essay on the Principle of Population.

ANSWER: Benjamin Franklin

[10e] This thinker used Franklin’s demographic observations to compare the productivity of the American colonies positively to China in his book The Wealth of Nations.

ANSWER: Adam Smith

[10m] Franklin argued that immigrants speaking this language were “swarthy” and decried their influence on Anglo culture. The first U.S. House Speaker’s opposition to this language is the subject of a recurring urban legend.

ANSWER: German [or Deutsch] (Frederick Muhlenberg was the Speaker of the House who supposedly prevented German from being voted an official language of the U.S.)

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Summary


2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	Y	6	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 BHSU Online	04/15/2023	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
It's Joever	[Insert Lawyer Joke Here]	10	10	10	30
Stanford B	Berkeley A	10	10	10	30
Rutgers Diaspora	Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	Maryland B+	10	10	10	30
The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs	Fan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them	0	10	0	10
Northwestern	Brownstein et al.	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Illinois	0	10	10	20
Epic	Purdue	0	10	10	20
Michigan	Amartya Senpai Notice Me	0	10	10	20
OSU	Chicago B+	0	10	10	20
Mojo Shojo	WUSTL	0	10	10	20
Cornell B-	Dr. Christopher Manners, MD - Samarra, Iraq	0	10	10	20
Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang	Cornell C++	0	10	10	20
The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B	Houston and friends	0	10	10	20
Hutto Hippos	What is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU	0	10	10	20
Broken Imperial Nomads	Oxford Hornets	0	10	10	20
Buzzers Karamazov	Magisters Ludi	0	10	10	20
Cameron et al.	Milan et al.	0	10	10	20
The Vulture's Guide to Buzz	Parth et al.	0	10	10	20
Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style	The Passion According to C.H.	0	10	10	20
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	0	10	0	10
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	0	10	10	20
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	10	0	10
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	10	10	20
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	0	10	0	10
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
meet the new weird, same as the old weird	UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	0	10	10	20
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	0	10	0	10
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	0	10	10	20
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	10	0	10
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	10	10	20