Trivia Question:
Name the current member of the Rice women’s basketball team whose brother played for the Rockets and other NBA teams.  Email your answer here.

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Dr. Frank Vandiver did not graduate from high school but earned a masters from UT and a PhD from Tulane and served as acting Rice president from 1969 to 1970 as well as University of North Texas president from 1979 to 1981 and Texas A&M president from 1981 to 1988.  Click here for the Rice News obituary dated January 13, 2005.

Today, Rice Swimming is hosting Tulane.

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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.

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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!)

Trivia Question:
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.