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Rice Trivia
100

(KINE 310): The term for the type of motivation an individual naturally possesses for an activity because they enjoy doing it.

What is: Intrinsic Motivation?

100

(HEAL 222): The term that means the expected, persistent occurrence of a disease in a population

What is: Endemic?

100
(KINE 311): The term for the delay in processing a second stimulus because the brain is still responding to the first stimulus.

What is: The Psychological Refractory Period? 

100

(HEAL 222): What is the largest national health agency in the U.S.?

What is: The Department of Health and Human Services?

100

The ktru Outdoor Show featured this headlining band this year

Who is: Laundry Day?

200

(KINE 321): The method that is considered the “gold standard” for measuring body composition

What is: Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DEXA)?

200

(HEAL 407): The name for the type of study that measures exposure and outcome at the same point in time

What is: Cross-sectional Study?

200

(KINE 319): The name of the research phenomenon that describes when participants either consciously or unconsciously act differently because they know they are being studied

What is: The Hawthorne Effect?

200

(HEAL 460): Impact evaluation measures which effects?

What are: the Immediate Effects of a program?

200

What is the date that marks the recently-christened annual "Rice Day" in Texas?

What is: April 14th?

300

(KINE 302): The name for the mechanism that leads to a tightening of the plantar fascia as the body's center of mass progresses forward.

What is: The Windlass Mechanism?

300

(HEAL 103): These are the fat-soluble vitamins.

What are: Vitamins A, D, E, and K?

300

(KINE 311): The type of performance curve that describes the rate at which most people learn most types of skills.  

What is: Negatively Accelerating Performance Curve?

300

(HEAL 460): In PRECEDE, this is the type of factors which include knowledge, motivation, and beliefs

What are: Predisposing factors?

300

This Rice Chemistry professor participated in a heated debate about the origin of life with YouTube tutor Dave Farina (“Professor Dave Explains”):

Who is: Dr. James Tour?

400

(KINE 300): The name of the substance that Chief cells secrete

What is: Pepsinogen?

(partial credit for pepsin)

400

(HEAL 407): This phase of clinical trials tests whether a treatment is safe

What is: Phase I?

400

(KINE 301): The gland that leads to bone breakdown and increases circulating Ca2+ in the blood. 

What is: The Parathyroid Gland?

400

(HEAL 460): The full form of the acronym MAP-IT

What is: Mobilize, Assess, Plan, Implement, Track

400

The name of the newly-announced student center which will be built near the RMC.

What is: the Moody Center Complex for Student Life?

(credit for just "Moody Center Complex")

500

(KINE 319): The name for a "thinner"-than-normal Normal Distribution

What is: Leptokurtic?

500

(HEAL 407): This is a major bias which can limit ecologic studies

What is: Ecologic fallacy

500

(KINE 302): This specifically-named angle is used a lot to monitor patellar tracking and provide information that might help explain patellofemoral pain.

What is: The Q Angle?

500

(HEAL 103): The deficiency that might be seen in a person with cracked skin, keratinization of epithelial cells, and poor vision

What is: Vitamin A deficiency?

500

The name of the person OR the profession of the person who murdered William Marsh Rice.

Who was: Charles F. Jones (His Valet)

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