Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, July 28, 1995 TAG: 9507280055
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: NANCY GLEINER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
1. He flunked a speech class in high school, was fired from three radio station jobs and was advised to consider a career in sales.
2. At nearly 50, he had earned almost nothing from his writing. In three years he had sold one new poem - for a grand total of $30.
3. He was cut twice from his high school basketball team.
4. While rebuilding her career, she supported herself by cleaning houses and with food stamps.
5. He started his business by selling running shoes from the trunk of his car.
6. A month before her new business was to open, her husband died and advisors discouraged her from going into business alone.
7. She was fired from 18 different jobs in broadcasting and was once so poor she and her family lived in their car.
Score 5 points for every correct answer, 3 for every ``I didn't know that,'' and 1 for each, ``Well, I'll be darned!''.
Answers:
1. Rush Limbaugh
2. Robert Frost
3. Michael Jordan
4. Tina Turner
5. Phil Knight, founder of Nike
6. Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics (annual sales: more than $600 million)
7. Sally Jessy Raphael
Source: ``Bumps in the Road,'' by Joseph P. Neely.
by CNB