Daily Quiz for January 9, 2011

Scrapbooks. Twain was issued US Patent #140,245 for a scrapbook with self-adhesive pages: dampen a page a little, and your memento would adhere to it. Mr. Twain must have gotten tired of getting out the glue for his press clippings. He told a friend he received $1,800 – $2,000 a year from sales of the scrapbook – and figured he was being cheated by the publisher.