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
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| UG Championship Players (and Mazin) | Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |