Rice Trivia
This man was the first president of the Rice Institute.
Who is Edgar Odell Lovett?
Biographer Brenda Maddox called her the "Dark Lady of DNA", this scientist lost the original credit for discovering the double helix.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This famous Holiday plant that gets hung above heads to prompt people to kiss.
What is mistletoe?
Known for classic novels - such as Pride and Prejudice - that questioned women's roles within society, she had to write under a false name.
Who is Jane Austen?
Greta Gerwig's Barbie and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer both opened in theaters on July 21, 2023. What was the name of the meme that emerged in the weeks leading up to their release?
What is Barbenheimer?
This trophy is awarded to the winner of the football game between Rice and the University of Houston.
What is the Bayou Bucket?
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields - Physics and Chemistry.
Who is Marie Curie?
This is the number of nights Diwali is celebrated over
What is 5 nights?
She was the first woman to solo across the Atlantic and from Hawaii to California
Who was Amelia Earhart?
This 5 letter word-guessing game rose in popularity and was eventually acquired by the New York Times
What is Wordle?
The residential college system was founded in this year, also the year of the first Beer Bike race
What is 1957?
A famous American Actress, she invented the precursor to Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth called signal hopping.
Who is Hedy Lamarr?
The meaning of the word Hanukkah
The first woman to be inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Who is Aretha Franklin?
Leonardo Di Caprio allegedly does not date women older than this age.
What is 25 years old?
After cooking rice it becomes this many times heavier.
What is 3 times?
The first woman in America to receive a medical degree, she would later open a hospital for women & children with her sister Emily
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
A three-day holiday that ends the Islamic month of Ramadan.
What is Eid al-fitr?
Who was a professional tennis player who won the Battle of the Sexes against Bobby Riggs in 1973 and is the founder of the Women's Tennis Association and the Women's Sports Foundation.
Who is Billie Jean King?
Shakira found out that her partner was having an affair after noticing this food item was eaten.
What is a jar of jam?
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?
After being launched in the spacecraft Vostok 6, which completed 48 orbits in 71 hours, she became the first woman to fly in space.
Who is Valentina Tereshkova?
This U.S. state was the first to make Christmas an official holiday?
What is Alabama?
I am the first woman and first African American to serve as provost of Stanford University and later became Secretary of State?.
Who is Condoleezza Rice?
This Tiktok about disliking a certain kind of food inspired many TikTok users to share their craziest stories.
What is store bought pesto?