Question
This phrase titles a 2023 book by Dan Evans that analyzes the “irresistible rise” of the petit-bourgeois in the post-Thatcher era. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this phrase that a 1776 book uses for a country that would “found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers.” Napoleon supposedly used this three-word phrase to deride England.
ANSWER: a nation of shopkeepers
[10e] The first use of the phrase appears in this aforementioned 1776 book, which Margaret Thatcher supposedly always kept in her handbag. This anti-mercantilist magnum opus founded classical free market economic theory.
ANSWER: The Wealth of Nations (by Adam Smith)
[10h] The petit-bourgeois experience of the British Empire is also chronicled in a Bernard Porter book titled for “imperialists” in this mental state. In The Expansion of England, John Robert Seeley remarked on the “fit” of this mental state that created Britain’s empire.
ANSWER: absent-mindedness [or absence of mind; accept The Absent-Minded Imperialists]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 18.67 | 100% | 73% | 13% |
Data
| Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | LMM's LLM MLM | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | Les Missourables | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Lisan al-Quib | The Oldest Men in the World | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | var merchants | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| We Need New Names | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | The Empire Bikes Back | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | The Jeam Team | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |