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!)

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.

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!)

Trivia Question:
Name the member of the 1974 Rice Volleyball team who became an attorney and is married to a Rice Emeriti Faculty member.  For a bonus point, name him.  Email your answer(s) here.

Guest Trivia Answer:
First, thanks to Walt Greenberg for the guest trivia question!

Two-time Joyce Pounds Hardy Award winner Debbie Turner Kochevar, who played volleyball and basketball and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Rice in 1978, was Dean of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts from 2006 until 2018. (Thanks, Mike Ross!)