Daily Quiz for November 18, 2008

Samuel Clemens. During an 1884 lecture tour together, Southern writer George Washington Cable and Samuel Clemens were billed as the “Twins of Genius.” Clemens, who used the pen name Mark Twain, joined the popular Southern local-colorist writer Cable in a 15-week lecture tour of the Northeast. Clemens later wrote of Cable, “With his platform talent he was able to fatigue a corpse.”