Origins Quiz — Tuesday, September 22, 2026

What payment method was named, and described in detail, in Edward Bellamy's 1888 utopian novel Looking Backward, about a man who wakes in the year 2000, more than six decades before Diners Club issued the first real one in 1950? (Two words: 6, 4 letters)

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