Rice University
This Houston-based merchant and namesake of the university was killed in 1900, leaving his fortune to found the school.
What is William Marsh Rice
This brain structure, shaped like a seahorse, is crucial for forming new episodic memories
What is the hippocampus
This residential college has a strong affinity for bananas
What is McMurtry?
Name four program sites (9 total)
What are Paul Revere, Jane Long, Las Americas, Welch, Etoile Academy, Wisdom, Sharpstown, Liberty, Westside?
This animal lays the largest egg
What is an ostrich?
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy delivered his famous “We choose to go to the moon” speech at this Rice venue.
What is Rice Stadium
This spice, the world’s most expensive by weight, comes from the stigmas of a crocus flower
What is saffron
This college has a tradition of dunking people in a fountain on their birthdays (2 possible)
What are Brown and Duncan?
The Learners program involves this age-group of students.
What are middle schoolers?
This country is where reggae music originated
What is Jamaica?
Rice and the University of Houston play for this trophy in their football rivalry.
What is the Bayou Bucket
This animal is known to have 3 hearts and blue blood
What is an octopus
These were the first four residential college to be founded
What are Baker, Will Rice, Hanszen, and Weiss?
The Leaders program involves this age-group of students.
What are high schoolers?
It is common to find square watermelons in this country
What is Japan?
Though chartered in 1891, the school did not open its doors to students until this year
What is 1912
On this planet, a day (about 243 Earth days) is longer than its year (about 225 Earth days)
What is Venus
This college was the first women's dormitory
What is Jones?
PAIR is an acronym for the Partnership for Advancement and Immersion of these people
Who are refugees
A group of owls is called this
What is a parliament?
Until 1965, Rice offered this benefit to every student, as founder William Marsh Rice intended
What is free (tuition-free) education
Crows can recognize these individuals and hold grudges against them for years
What are human faces
This college is where Chaus and KTRU began
What is Hanszen?
True or False: PAIR originally started as a student-run club at University of Houston
What is False? (Originally started at Rice!)
This book holds the Guinness World Record for longest novel with 1.3 million words
What is In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu) by Marcel Proust?