August 1, 2023
Trivia Question:
Name the two members of the C-USA Hall of Fame who will be inducted into the Rice Athletics Hall of Fame on October 27. One point for each. Email your answer(s) here.
Trivia Question:
Name the two members of the C-USA Hall of Fame who will be inducted into the Rice Athletics Hall of Fame on October 27. One point for each. Email your answer(s) here.
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!)
Guest Trivia Question:
Name the Rice graduate who became a syndicated radio and television psychologist dispensing advice counseling for nearly 40 years. Email your answer here.
Trivia Answer:
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.
Trivia Question:
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.
Trivia Answer:
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.
Trivia Question:
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.
Trivia Answer:
In 1996, Jeff Venghaus was the first Owl drafted by the Marlins.