Trivia Question:
Who earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Texas and will receive a 2023 Laureates Award on May 4?   Email your answer here.

Trivia Answer:
Baker College won the first Beer Bike race held in 1957.  Future Houston City Councilman Jim Greenwood ’58 was a member of the winning team.  Hanszen College was disqualified for taking “a ‘long’ short-cut”. (Thanks, Mike Ross!)

Baker College is Bike Race Victor (The Rice Thresher, 5/10/1957, p. 1)

Trivia Question:
Name the college that won the first Beer Bike race held in 1957.  For a bonus point, name the future Houston City Councilman who was a member of the winning team.  For another bonus point, name the college that was disqualified. Email your answer(s) here.

Trivia Answer:
On her second mission, Expedition 16 in 2007-2008, Peggy Whitson, PhD ‘86  became the first woman to command the International Space Station.  In 2019, she was inducted into the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame at the Lone Star Flight Museum.  (Thanks, Mike Ross!)

Trivia Question:
Name the first woman to command the International Space Station.  Email your answer here.

Trivia Answer:
Janis Joplin attended Lamar State College of Technology (nka Lamar University) in Beaumont and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, posthumously, in 2005.  (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!) 

Last night, Rice baseball defeated Lamar, 9-3.

Trivia Question:
Who attended Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award?  Email your answer here.

Trivia Anwer:
Three-year Rice track letterman Jeff Jorgensen (2000-01-02) was a member of the 2003 National Championship Baseball team.  And, his teammate Vincent Sinisi transferred to Rice from the University of Texas.  (Thanks, Mike Ross!)

Rice to Honor 2003 College World Series Champions on March 24-25 (Rice Owls)

Trivia Question:
Name the member of the 2003 National Championship Baseball team who was a three-year Rice track letterman.  For a bonus point, name another member of the 2003 National Championship Baseball team who transferred to Rice from the University of Texas.  Email your answer(s) here.

Trivia Answer:
John Heisman, who attended Brown University (1887-88), was a former Rice football head coach (1924-27).  On Sunday, the Rice W tennis team hosts Brown at the George R Brown Tennis Center.  (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst!)

Trivia Question:
Name the former Rice football head coach who attended Brown University.  Email your answer here.

Trivia Answer:
Wade Townsend was twice selected as the eighth overall pick of the Major League Draft, by Baltimore in 2004 and Tampa Bay in 2005.  Jeff Blackinton earned a PhD in Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.  (Thanks, Mike Ross!):

Rice to Honor 2003 College World Series Champions on Mach 24-25 (Rice Owls)