November 3, 2022
Trivia Question:
Without graduating from high school, who served both as an acting president of Rice and as a president of Texas A&M? Email your answer here.
Trivia Question:
Without graduating from high school, who served both as an acting president of Rice and as a president of Texas A&M? Email your answer here.
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Swimmer Zoe Spitz is the first Rice Owl to win Athlete of the Week honors in the American Athletic Conference. Read more.
Trivia Question:
Name the first Rice Owl to win Athlete of the Week honors in the American Athletic Conference. Email your answer here.
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Former Owl baseball player Jimmy Comerota (aka Jimmy Baseball) is a member of the Houston Astros front office. He is a Director, Corporate Partnerships. Today, the Astros and the Phillies begin the World Series at Minute Maid Park.
Trivia Question:
Name the former Owl baseball player who is a member of the Houston Astros front office. Email your answer here.
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Geologist Carey Croneis (Denison ’22) served as acting Rice president from 1960 to 1961. (Thanks, Mike Ross!)
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Name the Rice president who was a Denison University educated geologist. Email your answer here.
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After earning a BA degree with honors in Physics from Rice in May, 1957 and before starting graduate school at Caltech, Bob Wilson obtained his first patent doing a summer job with Exxon. He shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics with Arno Penzias “for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation”. Read more.
Trivia Question:
Name the Nobel Prize winner who obtained his first patent doing a summer job immediately after earning a BA degree from Rice. Email your answer here.
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First, Steve Lukingbeal also correctly answered Tuesday’s trivia question.
Dr JP Bramhall, who was a four-year baseball letterman for Texas A&M, is the father of Bobby Bramhall, who was an All-American pitcher for Rice (Thanks, Mike Ross!)
On Sunday, the Aggies host the Owls on the soccer pitch in College Station.
Trivia Question:
Name the four-year baseball letterman for Texas A&M whose son was an All-American pitcher for Rice. Email your answer here.
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1974 Rice Volleyball teammate Liz Howard Crowell ‘76 became an attorney and is married to Rice Emeriti Faculty member Steven Crowell. (Thanks, Mike Ross!)