brainy

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The ad, titled “Good Will Dunkin’,” featured Affleck as the original brainy Boston math whiz, who happens to work at Dunkin’ and arranges a display of Munchkins in a Fibonacci sequence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

What do you get for the brainy science lover who seems to know everything?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

At 12, the brainy boy who read the World Almanac for pleasure appeared on the popular radio show “Quiz Kids.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

Sir Stephen Fry lived up to his brainy reputation over breakfast, by predicting the chessboard was back: "I could be a knight - oh, I already am," he joked.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

But I had a striking sense that if I’d had a son, he would, at the core, be a lot like this brainy, combative oddball sitting in a musty apartment in a small Idaho town.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz