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100
The Rice volleyball and men’s & women’s basketball teams play in this venue.
What is Tudor Fieldhouse?
100
This man was the first president of the Rice Institute.
Who is Edgar Odell Lovett?
100
This metal knight stands in the Hanszen quad, and is also the title of our Jacks Coordinator
What is the Guardian?
100
This local brewery bottled Centenni-Ale and donated its proceeds to Rice University.
What is St. Arnold Brewing Company?
100
Shannon Walker holds PhD in Space Physics from Rice and now has this profession.
What is an astronaut?
200
This trophy is awarded to the winner of the football game between Rice and the University of Houston.
What is the Bayou Bucket?
200
This astronomer was the first Rice graduate to win the Nobel Prize.
Who is Robert W. Wilson?
200
On February 15, 2001, swinging construction equipment from Wiess College inspired this Hanszen tradition.
What is Crane Day?
200
The NASA center in southeast Houston is named for this U.S. President.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
200
This Rice alumnus became mayor of Houston in 2011.
Who is Annise Parker?
300
This team will be Rice’s first football opponent in 2013. (Hint, the Owls will face the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner).
What is Texas A&M?
300
The residential college system was founded in this year, also the year of the first Beer Bike race
What is 1957?
300
In this semi-yearly tradition, Hanszenites paint up to invade their rival college and set the Wiessman free from their terrible cult.
What is Jailbreak?
300
The founding director of this Museum was a Rice architecture professor, and the original building was designed by another Rice faculty architect.
What is the Museum of Fine Arts?
300
This eccentric American billionaire attended Rice in the 1920s. He is the subject of the film 'The Aviator'.
Who is Howard Hughes?
400
This former Rice baseball pitching star threw a perfect game for the Chicago White Sox in 2012.
Who is Philip Humber?
400
This major league baseball stadium was once owned by Rice.
What is Yankee Stadium? (from 1962 to 1971)
400
Hanszen became a co-ed college in this year.
What is 1973?
400
Name one Houston university that Rice trustees loaned money from the university’s endowment to fund the purchase of land for the schools’ campuses.
What is University of St. Thomas -OR- Houston Baptist University?
400
Larry McMurtry won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for this novel.
What is 'Lonesome Dove'?
500
This former Rice goalkeeper was the first Owl to play professional soccer overseas last year. (Hint: she was a member of Hanszen College)?
Who is Catherine Fitzsimmons?
500
This appointed Rice president served the shortest term.
Who is William Masterson?
500
It is the name of Merry’s softball team, who wear purple and white.
What is the Butterflies?
500
Name one of the two Rice alumni who founded St. Arnold Brewing Company.
Who is Brock Wagner -OR- Kevin Bartol?
500
Rice alum Steve Jackson created this card game, in which you “Kill the monsters. Steal the treasure. Stab your buddy.”
What is Munchkin?