Historical clue formulations

• Geek (out) — 2025-12-07
• Bookish type, stereotypically — 2025-10-13
• Square one — 2025-05-22
• Geeky type — 2024-12-17
• Passionately discuss minutiae, with "out" — 2024-07-31
• Jock's counterpart — 2024-07-09
• Enthusiast — 2024-06-23
• Brainy sort — 2024-04-08
• Techie or Trekkie, say — 2024-03-26
• Many a Comic-Con attendee — 2024-01-26
• Wonk — 2023-10-11
• Person who might do the Vulcan salute — 2023-07-25
• Trivia lover, maybe — 2023-04-09
• Self-description for a D&D enthusiast, maybe — 2023-01-16
• Brainy oddball — 2022-10-18
• Square type — 2022-07-24
• Wonkish sort — 2022-04-12
• Peter Parker in "Spider-Man," for one — 2022-02-01
• "Jobs vs. Gates: The Hippie and the ___" (2015 TV movie) — 2021-09-04
• Lead-in to core or fest — 2021-08-13
• One who's able to rattle off digits of pi, perhaps — 2021-07-04
• Brainy sort — 2021-05-23
• Homework lover, say — 2021-02-10
• One who knows all the answers, maybe — 2020-09-29
• Brainy sort — 2020-09-07
• Spend all weekend solving crosswords, say, with "out" — 2019-06-30
• Superbrainy sort — 2019-05-28
• Wonkish sort — 2019-04-26
• One probably not with the jocks at the lunch table — 2018-07-02
• Put-down that nowadays may be worn as a badge of honor — 2018-03-21
• Get excited about crosswords, say, with "out" — 2017-10-29
• Homework lover, maybe — 2017-06-04
• Jerry Lewis's "Nutty Professor" was an early example of one — 2017-03-22
• Jock's antithesis — 2017-02-06
• Brainiac, stereotypically — 2017-01-06
• Do 10 crosswords in a row, say, with "out" — 2016-10-04
• Socially maladroit sort — 2016-09-19
• Dorkmeister — 2016-04-12
• Almost any character on "The Big Bang Theory" — 2015-12-30
• One scoring 100% on Sporcle quizzes, say — 2015-09-01
• Geek — 2015-01-13
• One whose favorite website is Sporcle, say — 2014-12-16
• With 77-Across, when combined into one word, national trivia championship, e.g. — 2014-11-09
• Filmdom's Napoleon Dynamite, for one — 2014-11-06
• Napoleon Dynamite, e.g. — 2013-12-05
• Hardly Mr. Cool — 2013-11-27
• Stereotypical Mensan — 2013-11-20
• Mathlete, stereotypically — 2013-11-12
• Weenie — 2013-08-27
• Bookworm, maybe — 2013-07-28