Packet 8: Bonus 9
Gerard Koeppel argued that a three-man team who produced this system slacked off for three years then mostly copied an earlier proposal made by Casimir Goerck. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this system created by the Commissioner’s Plan of 1811, which claimed it “appeared to be the best” in a terse explanation. John Randel Jr. produced detailed documents outlining this system.
ANSWER: Manhattan’s street grid [accept answers involving the roads or streets of Manhattan; prompt on answers involving the New York City street grid by asking “which part of the city?”]
[10e] Manhattan’s planners opted for a grid instead of the radial streets of the L’Enfant Plan of this US capital city.
ANSWER: Washington, D.C. [or D.C. or the District of Columbia]
[10m] A Founding Father with this surname helped write the Commissioner’s Plan and served as chair of the Erie Canal Commission after writing the preamble to the constitution. A financier with this surname went broke in a D.C. land scheme that caused the Panic of 1796.
ANSWER: Morris [accept Gouverneur Morris or Robert Morris]
<EC, American History> | NAFTA-Packet-8
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
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| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✕ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✕ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✕ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✕ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✕ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✕ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✕ | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 25% | 50% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✕ | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✕ | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 60% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✕ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |