The hero of "The Zero Theorem" is a computer genius called Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz).
Ridley Scott's new epic features a crazed, flawed genius called Peter Weyland (played by Guy Pearce in unrecognisably craggy makeup).
To raise the ante even further, Mr. Carey incorporates a Babbage-like genius (called Cruickshank, who experiments with computing machinery and is more than a little mad.
The Oasis was conjured up by a woolly-haired genius called Halliday (Mark Rylance), who died seven years ago, bequeathing an infuriating game.
Having picked up the guitar for the first time a year earlier with the principal goal of mastering this beautiful, deceptively complex tune, which was written by a wayward genius called Davy Graham, I think I've got it down pretty good.
Donald Glover plays a youthful Sorkinian savant genius called Rich, who more or less saves the day, dissing the bejeepers out of pompous Jeff Daniels without realising he is doing so.
"There is a myth, according to which Hebrew was revived for ideological reasons by a genius of a madman, or a madman of a genius, called Eliezer Ben Yehuda, who reinvented Hebrew and invented thousands of words — and all of it is true," Oz said.
Heinlein's story describes a secret society of geniuses called the New Men who train themselves to think more rapidly and precisely using a language called Speedtalk, which is capable of condensing entire sentences into single words.
But there are two potentially meaningful arguments which opponents of the startup visa make, which are worth discussing: that the founders we are bringing in aren't always the "best and brightest" and that there is already a visa category for geniuses called the O-1 visa.
The press called her a genius; she called herself the Sunshine Fairy.
