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Geek Trivia: (Doctor) Who's who in Hollywood
What famous Hollywood director turned down the job of designing the original Daleks from Dr. Who? If ever there was an excuse to redecorate your cubicle like a gloriously out-of-date British police box, this week has it: On Nov. 23, 1963, the first episode of Britain's premiere...
Tags: Daleks, Jay Garmon, Geek Trivia Newsletter, Villain, TechRepublic Inc., Dr., Science Fiction, Director, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Technical articles 2006-11-21
Geek Trivia: Action-pact science fiction
What did the Clarke-Asimov Treaty stipulate between the two iconic sci-fi writers? Ask someone what the Big Three refers to, and you'll get an interesting variety of answers. In 20th-century history, you're likely referring to the three heads of the World War II Allies: Joseph Stalin,...
Tags: Isaac Asimov, Games, Jay Garmon, Game players, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction, Geek Trivia Newsletter, Clarke, Corporate Communications, Wiki, Professional Development, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Online Communications, Career
Technical articles 2006-10-31
Geek Trivia: Science-fiction double feature
Who are the only four writers to have two books win both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best science-fiction/fantasy novel? If the Hugo Award is the science-fiction and fantasy equivalent of the Oscar, then the Nebula Award is geekdom's Emmy. Together, these two prestigious paperweights single...
Tags: Nebula, Jay Garmon, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, novel, science fiction, fantasy, Geek Trivia Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., Hugo, Scott Card, Clarke, Games, Corporate Communications, Professional Development, Personal Technology, Marketing, Career
Technical articles 2006-10-03
Geek Trivia: Rising from the ashes
What notable item of symbolic, nonscientific cargo survived the Challenger disaster completely unscathed? Twenty years ago this week, one of the gravest moments in the history of the American space program came to pass. On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded a mere 73 seconds...
Tags: Jay Garmon, Challenger, Geek Trivia Newsletter, Cargo, TechRepublic Inc., NASA, Disaster, Professional Development, Aerospace & Defense, Strategy, Career, Manufacturing, Management
Technical articles 2006-01-24

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Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for April 22, 2008
If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, just post it in the discussion area of the article. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from our assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. This week's...
Tags: Quibble, Corporate Communications, Processors, Semiconductors, Marketing, Hardware, Components, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2008-04-22
Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for April 15, 2008
If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, just post it in the discussion area of the article. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from our assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. ...
Tags: Quibble, Corporate Communications, Processors, Semiconductors, Marketing, Hardware, Components, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2008-04-15
Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for February 12
If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, "Valentine's daze," just post it in the discussion area. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from the assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. This...
Tags: Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2008-02-12
Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for Nov. 7, 2007
If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, "Roller coaster derby," just post it in the discussion area. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from the assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. ...
Tags: Quibble, Corporate Communications, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2007-11-27
The complete Geek Trivia archive!
Before we invented these fancy new blogs to hold all this excellent Geek Trivia, we used something called "technical articles," the complete reverse-chronological listing of which can be found here. Every Geek Trivia archived on TechRepublic on or before June 5, 2007, is available herein. by Jay Garmon
Tags: Trivia, Blogging, Internet, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2007-06-12
Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for Dec. 4, 2007
If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, "Sonic boom or bust," just post it in the discussion area. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from the assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. ...
Tags: Quibble, Corporate Communications, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2007-12-04
Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for May 20, 2008
If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, just post it in the discussion area of the article. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from our assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. ...
Tags: Geek Trivia, Quibble, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2008-05-20
Introducing Trivia Geek 2.0
Some of you may have noticed that Geek Trivia has gone into holiday rerun...er, Classic Geek mode a little early this year, and here's why: Rylie Madison - Trivia Geek 2.0. Two and a half weeks sooner than expected, your friendly neighborhood Trivia Geek is now a dad. Everything went...
Tags: Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2006-12-20
Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for June 3, 2008
If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, just post it in the discussion area of the article. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from our assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. ...
Tags: Geek Trivia, Quibble, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2008-06-03
Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for January 22
If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, "Overdose of tragedy," just post it in the discussion area. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from the assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. ...
Tags: Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2008-01-22
All roads lead to Geek Trivia
It occurred to me the other day that are a staggering number of ways to find all my old Geek Trivia columns. So much so that we may need to start syncing up and deduplicating our efforts. These methods include: My...
Tags: Geek Trivia, Productivity, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2005-08-05
Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for Sept. 9, 2008
This week's quibble is actually an invitation for some collaborative elaboration. The opening credits sequence to Star Trek: Enterprise includes snippets of historical space footage, much of which the Trivia Geek could not explicitly identify. The savvy reader who can put a name to any of these segments will get...
Tags: Footage, Geek Trivia, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2008-09-09
Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for Sept. 30, 2008
This week's quibble comes from the Sept. 23, 2008 edition of Geek Trivia, "One for the money, two for the tow." TechRepublic member rsprinkle noticed that The Trivia Geek mischaracterized the final disposition of three Apollo Lunar Modules. by Jay Garmon
Tags: Geek Trivia, Quibble, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2008-09-30
Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for Sept. 23, 2008
This week's quibble comes from the Sept. 16, 2008 edition of Geek Trivia, "The fact of antimatter." TechRepublic member RealGem flagged The Trivia Geek for being a bit limited in his description of the Large Hadron Collider. by Jay Garmon
Tags: Geek Trivia, Quibble, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2008-09-23
Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for January 8
If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, "Double trouble figures," just post it in the discussion area. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from the assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. ...
Tags: Quibble, Knowledge Management, Corporate Communications, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Data Management, Management, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2008-01-08
Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for June 10, 2008
If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, just post it in the discussion area of the article. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from our assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. This week's...
Tags: Geek Trivia, Quibble, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2008-06-10
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