Option 1: Elite -> refers to a select, superior group but doesn't relate to focusing on minor details or rules.
Option 2: Highbrow -> describes someone with sophisticated intellectual or cultural tastes, not specifically about excessive attention to details.
Option 3: Pedantic -> specifically means being overly concerned with minor details, rules, or displaying academic knowledge in a trivial way.
Option 4: Scholarly -> means having or showing knowledge from academic study, but without the negative connotation of being excessively focused on minutiae.
Hence, Option 3: Pedantic -> "Pedantic" perfectly captures the behavior of someone who is excessively concerned with formalism, accuracy, and minor details or rules, often in an annoying way -> correct