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Geek Trivia: What are only two local U.S. holidays to delay the IRS tax deadline?
Emancipation Day is the only local holiday that can delay the national U.S. federal tax filing deadline. However, as recently as 2010, another local holiday also delayed Tax Day in...
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Geek Trivia: Why (and how) did the real-life US government rule that the fictional X-Men aren't human?
Why did a real-life court of US law rule that mutants like the X-Men are definitively non-human -- ironically fulfilling the villainous role that the X-Men's comic book adventures ...
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Video: What if The Matrix ran on Windows XP?
Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, and Cipher must defeat evil Agent Smith to free humanity from a fate worse than death -- a reality run entirely on WinXP boxes.
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Geek Trivia: The root of all sequels
What is the most profitable movie ever made, as measured by percentage return on initial investment -- a horror film that underscores just how insanely easy it is to make money on ...
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T-shirt of the week: The cake is a lie
This is perhaps our most obscure geek shirt recommendation ever. Anyone who has played through Half-Life 2's complete Orange Box set knows that when a passive-aggressive supercompu...
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Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for Aug. 26, 2008
This week's quibble comes from the Aug. 19, 2008 edition of Geek Trivia, "To live in (compound) interesting times." TechRepublic member RealGem dinged Jay Garmon for poor use of fi...
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Geek Trivia: To live in (compound) interesting times
What was the average annual interest rate delivered by the Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks during the 20th century, a rate of return so consistently positive that it all but de...
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Geek Trivia: Spy versus spy-fiction
What was author Ian Fleming's codename when he worked for British military intelligence, an inspiration for the 007 moniker that Fleming would assign to his own most famous fiction...
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Presidential candidates as Dungeons and Dragons characters
While your friendly neighborhood Trivia Geek endeavors to remain publicly neutral on all issues political or controversial, I simply could not resist reposting (without editing or ...
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Geek Trivia: A tax to grind
Which company filed the largest U.S. tax return in history?