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Ultimate Geekery

It takes an online nation of millions to nail geek details this hard.

Check out the answers to Gizmodo's quiz challenge - the questions themselves are masterpieces in obscurity, the answers a like small moments of geeky online Zen. My favourite was the answer to question 5:

"5. Name the spoof band whose album appeared in the same movie as the singer whose 1995 album included a song named after a reanimated corpse?

Autobahn. Aimee Mann appeared in the movie The Big Lebowski (as the female nihilist minus a pinky toe). Her 1995 album "I'm With Stupid" included the song "Frankenstein".........

....Amusingly, though, there was an additional correct answer that we did not know about: Crucial Taunt, a spoof band in the movie Wayne's World, which also happened to feature Alice Cooper, whose 1995 greatest hits compilation "Classicks" featured his song 'Feed My Frankenstein'."

I'm just amazed that the Nihilist girl in The Big Lebowski was Aimee Mann, whose hauntingly beautiful songs made the perfect soundtrack to another Coen brothers masterpiece, Magnolia.

"Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos. "

Oh, no. This is bad. Once I get locked into a serious Big Lebowski quoting session, it is hard to get out of. For those who want to reminisce, here is a useful page of quotes.

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