Guest Trivia Answer:
Dr Joy Oppenheim Browne ’66, who was one of twelve outstanding seniors for the class of 1966, became a syndicated radio and television psychologist dispensing advice counseling for nearly 40 years.  (Thanks, Alyce Boster, Guy Rollins, Mike Ross and Bob Toone!)

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Name the Rice graduate who became a syndicated radio and television psychologist dispensing advice counseling for nearly 40 years.  Email your answer here.

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Hermann Muller was a Rice Biology instructor (1915-18) who became a civilian adviser to the Manhattan Project and later was awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.  Click here for a blog entry dated November 1, 2011 by Melissa Kean.

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Nane the Rice Biology instructor who became a civilian adviser to the Manhattan Project and later was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.  Email your answer here. 

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Chemical engineer Haskell Sheinberg, who earned a BS from Rice in 1941, worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.  Click here for a wonderful blog entry by Melissa Kean dated June 26, 2017 after he had passed away.

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As reported, the film Oppenheimer releases this week.  Name the chemical engineer with a BS from Rice who worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.  For a bonus point, name the Manhattan Project chemist who later became president of Rice.  Email your answer(s) here.

Guest Trivia Answer:
First, thanks to Scott Wise for the guest trivia question!

Chemist Max Roy, who earned a BA (1931) and MA (1933) from Rice and a PhD (1937) from the University of Illinois Urbana, worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos and became director of the Explosives Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1946.  Also, he funded the Max Roy Scholarship at Rice.

Guest Trivia Question:
The film Oppenheimer releases this week.  Name the chemist with a BA and MA from Rice who worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.  Email your answer here. 

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In 1996, Jeff Venghaus was the first Owl drafted by the Marlins.  

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JT Chargois and Dane Myers are the first Owls to play for the Marlins.  Name the first Owl to be drafted by the team.  For a bonus point, name another Owl drafted by the Marlins.  Email your answer(s) here.

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The first two teammates to ever go back-to-back in the first round of the Rule 4 draft were Jeff Niemann and Philip Humber when they were selected third and fourth overall in 2004.  Interestingly, Wade Townsend was selected eighth in same first round.  (Thanks, Mike Ross and Andy Williams!)

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The selection on Sunday of LSU Tigers Paul Skenes first and Dylan Crews second overall is the third time that teammates have been drafted back-to-back in the first round of the Rule 4 Draft.  Name the first two teammates to ever go back-to-back in the first round.  One point for each.  Email your answer here.