Geeky discussion topics

As a fellow comic book and trivia geek, I am compelled to mention that the name of the company that became DC was "National Periodical Publishers", not "National Publishers". They changed the name to "DC" after their most popular publication at the time "Detective Comics".

You used to post the answer to the previous trivia question when the next question ran. That allowed us that don't have the time, access, or gumption to access the website for the answer to find out "what's up, Doc."

It also allowed us, by archiving the newsletters, to have the trivia answer available.

Return the trivia answer to the newsletter, please. I'm sure I'm not the only reader that has requested this, and not the first time it's been brought up, either.

Thanks for the trivia. Keep bringing us NEW points of trivia (build up a stockpile for when you're not available instead of rerunning the old, used trivia!!!!).

The answer to your question would be yes, and then some. Setting parameters may be necessary in work but are anathema to play! The Geek Mind ranges in all likely and unlikely directions and such a forum should not have preconceived direction.

And agree that trivia answer should be returned to the newsletter in the following edition!

Actually, there were four Superman movies. The original and two sequels were produced by the Salkind brothers. The third sequel was produced by the Cannon Group. The last film had a story based on a letter that Cjristopher Reeve received from a fan, asking why Superman couldn't get rid of all of the planet's deadly nulclear weapons.

In light of so much bad news concerning the IT industry, I think a little humor (jokes, cartoonss, etc.) are in order after all without humor what do we have left:)

I'd like to see more about puzzles, like the puzzles google recently put out on their ad for applicants (the GLAT), or Microsoft uses sometimes in interviews, or maybe something about elegant solutions to interesting programming problems a la Dijkstra.

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I'd be all for including trivia in the GeekRepublic but how about urban legends as well? The sort of thing Snopes.com is good at getting to the bottom of.

It's argued that chess has been played out, that there is a zillion web sources on chess so why do we need another, etc. And yet... chess would be a great topic for geek trivia.

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Since you have gone to the realm of Geekdoom rather than just Geek Trivia, I suggest contributors provide current GEEK topics of interest and concern. I would like to see Geek Trivia expand to at least five categories, such as: Natural sciences(Physics/Chemistry/Biology/Medicine), Math/Computers, Politics/History, Religion/Spirituality, Athletics/physical (Sports/Chess/Card games), and/or Fine Arts/Communications (Television/Radio/Theatre/Movies). That way you don't just have a pass-fail, but a chance to get 3 out of 5, etc. Based on the internet research I have had to do with my high school/college and middle school daughters, there is tons of interesting trivia out there. Thanks.

My 2 cents for GeekRepublic Categories...

Geeky Sports Trivia

Geeky Music Trivia

We need robots, lots and lots of robots! And trivia. Good geeky trivia. And chess. Geeky trivia about chess playing robots. OK, that last was an attempt at humor. Actually, everything after the first sentence was an attempt at humor. But we do need robots.