<p>The Golden Gophers of the University of Minnesota.</p>
<p>What Holy Cross graduate was a celebrated trial lawyer and influential Washington insider whose clients ranged from the teamsters’ leader James R. Hoffa to Senator Joseph McCarthy? HINT:This person was the owner of the Baltimore Orioles professional baseball team and had also been president of the Washington Redskins professional football team for 20 years.</p>
<p>Edward Bennett Williams</p>
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<p>Holy Cross is one of only seven colleges in the nation that have a graduate that is a sitting US Supreme Court Justice.</p>
<p>Can you name all seven?</p>
<p>ANSWER:</p>
<p>The list is Cornell, Holy Cross, Harvard (2), Stanford (2), Georgetown, University of Chicago, Princeton</p>
<p>We want more trivia!</p>
<p>OK</p>
<p>Can you name the Holy Cross graduate that received the prestigious Lasker award this year? (Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science)</p>
<p>Anthony S. Fauci won the award. Dr. Fauci is an immunologist who has made substantial contributions to research in the areas of AIDS and other immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).</p>
<p>HC is the oldest Catholic college in New England and the third oldest in the US being founded in 1843. Can you name the 2 schools that are older?</p>
<p>Notre Dame is 1 year older founded in 1842. Georgetown is the oldest founded in 1789.</p>