February 20, 2024
Trivia Question:
Name the only American to be elected governor of two different States. Email your answer here.
Trivia Question:
Name the only American to be elected governor of two different States. Email your answer here.
Trivia Answer:
Condoleezza Rice, who earned a master’s degree from Notre Dame in 1975, was the first female African-American to serve as US Secretary of State. Yesterday, she was on campus to speak at a Baker Institute event. And, this weekend, the Owls open the 2024 baseball season with a weekend series against the Fighting Irish. (Thanks, Walt Greenberg and Mike Ross!)
Trivia Question:
Name the first female African-American to serve as US Secretary of State. Email your answer here.
Trivia Answer:
OJ Brigance ’92 is the only football player in history to win a Grey Cup (Stallions, 1995) and a Super Bowl (Ravens, 2001) with teams based out of the same city (Baltimore). He was inducted into the Rice Athletic Hall of Fame in 2003 and he was honored with an ARA Distinguished Alumni Award in 2012. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
Trivia Question:
Name the only football player in history to win a Super Bowl and Grey Cup with teams based out of the same city. Email your answer here.
Guest Trivia Answer:
First, thanks to Mike Ross for the guest trivia question!
Guest Trivia Question:
First, Steve Lukingbeal also correctly answered Tuesday's guest trivia question!
Name the first Owl to score a Super Bowl TD by catching Joe Montana’s first career Super Bowl TD pass. Email your answer here.
Trivia Answer:
Larry Izzo ‘96 played on three Super Bowl Championship New England teams (2001, 2003, 2004). Also, he won a Super Bowl ring as assistant special teams coach for the New York Giants in 2012. (Thanks, Vicki Bretthauer and Boyd Harrison!)
Trivia Question:
Name the Rice alum who played on three Super Bowl Championship New England Patriot teams. Email your answer here.
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Senior Micah Davis on the current Rice baseball roster is the son of Dana Davis, a four-year baseball letterman (1993-94-95-96) who helped lead the Owls to the program’s first conference championship in 1996.
Trivia Question:
First, Don Schaffer also correctly answered Tuesday’s trivia question!
Name the senior on the current Rice baseball roster whose father played baseball for the Owls. Email your answer here.
Trivia Answer:
Tanner Fox is the member of the current Rice baseball roster whose father (Mike Fox ’85) and grandfather (Jim Fox ’62) played baseball for the Owls. Other Rice baseball family members include his brother (Blake Fox ’16) and his cousin (Matt Fox ’01).