1) The document is a quiz containing information about various inspirational figures and events. 2) It includes questions about J.K. Rowling being rejected by publishers before finding success, the movie that featured Will Smith learning to solve a Rubik's Cube, and Humayun being the inspiration for the Taj Mahal. 3) It also asks about people like Rosa Parks, Swami Vivekanand, and Mahatma Gandhi.

1. A quiz on
inspirations
By Harsh Utkarsh

2. Rules
Hug you team mate
+10 on direct, +20 on pounce
No negatives, just inspiration

3. Lets begin with an easy one

4. X had just gotten a divorce, was on
government aid, and could barely afford to
feed her baby in 1994, just three years
before the first book was published. When
she was shopping it out, she was so poor
she couldn’t afford a computer or even the
cost of photocopying the 90,000-word
novel, so she manually typed out each
version to send to publishers. It
was rejected dozens of times until finally
Y, a small London publisher, gave it a
second chance after the CEO’s eight year-
old daughter fell in love with it.

5. X= J.K.Rowling ; Y=
Bloomsbury

6. Speedcubing champions Tyson
Mao and Toby Mao and Lars Petrus
were hired to coach the lead actor to
solve a Rubik's Cube in under two
minutes in this movie released in
2006. The movie is extremely popular
and its scenes are shown to students
who are going to appear for
interviews. What movie and who is the
lead actor?

7. The pursuit of happyness
starring Will Smith

8. His peaceful personality, patience and non-
provocative methods of speech earned him the
title ’Insān-i-Kamil (Perfect Man). When he came
to the throne several of his brothers revolted
against him. Gradually, he was driven out of the
Indian territory conquered by his father. In many
accounts he mentions how he and his heavily
pregnant wife, had to trace their steps through
the desert at the hottest time of year. Later, he
gathered a huge army only to return and retake
his empire. His tomb is said to be the inspiration
for India’s most iconic structure. Who is he?

9. Humayun

10. “I trust, you remember me as a fellow-traveller
on your voyage from Japan to Chicago. I very
much recall at this moment your views on the
growth of the ascetic spirit in India... I recall
these ideas in connection with my scheme of
Research Institute of Science for India, of which
you have doubtless heard or read”
This is the excerpt of a letter from entrepreneur
X to Swami Vivekanand. X wanted Vivekanand to
be a guide in setting up Y. Vivekanand endorsed
the project and Y resulted, some of whose
buildings were designed by the same architect
who designed this city.

11. X: J.N Tata ; Y: Indian Institute
of Science

12. "Are you going to stand up?" the driver
demanded. X looked straight at him and
said: "No." Flustered, and not quite sure
what to do, Blake retorted, "Well, I'm going
to have you arrested." And X, still sitting
next to the window, replied softly, "You
may do that.“
This is one of the most famous
conversations in the history of American
civil rights. By this simple act of defiance,
X went on from being a department store
seamstress to the mother of a revolution.

13. Rosa Parks

14. Identify the artist

15. Daft Punk

16. No Arms, No Legs, No Worries! Is
the name of the DVD that this guy
markets for young people. He is
a motivational speaker, travelling
internationally and focusing on
teenage problems. Having
addressed over three million
people in almost 60 countries on
five continents. Who is he?

17. Nick Vujicic

18. Id the song and the artist

19. Vangelis – Chariots of fire

20. Shown in red, the
X railway line is
9289 km long and
is the longest
railway line in the
world. It was
completed in the
period from 1891
to 1916 and is an
engineering
marvel.

21. The trans- Siberian railway line

22. The dedication of which book
reads "To ALEXANDER GRAHAM
BELL Who has taught the deaf to
speak and enabled the listening
ear to hear speech from the
Atlantic to the Rockies, I dedicate
this _____ __ __ ____.“?

23. The story of my life, Helen
Keller’s autobiography

24. The title of this person’s
autobiography is “It all adds up”. In
the book, he talks about the start of
his institution which he started as a
result of losing his job due to a
paralysis attack: "At first, around eight
of us studied around my dining-room
table. Then I added a few stools to
make it 12, then I added a foot to
each side of the table“ Who is he?

25. Vinod Kumar Bansal, founder
of Bansal Classes

26. The computers used in this mission
were less advanced than today’s
wristwatches. The entire world
cheered its success. However,
president Nixon’s speechwriter had a
speech prepared for the event of a
disaster which read, "These brave
men, X and Y, know that there is no
hope for their recovery. But they also
know that there is hope for mankind
in their sacrifice."

27. The Apollo 11 mission

28. One morning X read an article in a daily
newspaper on the rise of burglary
incidents in the city and in which the
commissioner of police called for better
security of homes and places of business.
X grasped that a better lock was needed,
and began to research the subject. He
soon discovered that the locks made in
India were all fashioned by hand, a labour-
intensive and inefficient means of
manufacture, and X resolved to
manufacture a lock that would be
guaranteed "unpickable".

29. X=Ardeshir Godrej, co-founder
of Godrej group of companies

30. His attempts at establishing a law
practice in Bombayfailed because he
was psychologically unable to cross-
question witnesses. He returned to his
home town to make a modest living
drafting petitions for litigants, but he
was forced to stop when he ran foul of
a British officer. Who is this guy who
is the father of many revolutions?

31. Mahatma Gandhi

32. Dedicated to siddharth mishra