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1. Richard Overton decided to speak up. He wished to defend all the men who had been rejected by women. So, he took out a lawsuit against those who had, he believed, given men the misleading belief that they would be irresistible to the opposite sex. Who did he sue?
2. Thankfully, some people are impervious to the rejections they receive and the world is a better place for it. Who was the Indian-born author of "Kim" who ignored one publisher's view that "you just don't know how to use the English language" to win a Nobel Prize for Literature?
3. Having become the longest serving senator in Nebraska's history, Ernie Chambers was used to success. However, a politician's life is frequently filled with rejection, especially so when you try to take on one of the most powerful entities in the world. Who did he unsuccessfully sue for bringing "widespread death, destruction and terrorization" to the worldwide population?
4. There are fewer rejections greater than having the ship you command taken away from you by mutiny. However, this naval officer demonstrated his remarkable seamanship by piloting the boat in which he was cast adrift, from the scene of the mutiny to the nearest European outpost, more than 6000km away. Who was this talented English officer?
5. Elvis Presley is not a name that is commonly associated with rejection but even the biggest can sometimes get that sinking feeling. After his first performance in which legendary concert, in 1954, was Elvis dismissed and told to "go back to drivin' a truck"?
6. This businessman had a desire to serve customers on the shop floor as a young man but his boss rejected him as he thought he "lacked the sense to do so". Subsequently, he used what little sense he had to build a business from one store in 1879 to a world-leading retail chain with stores in dozens of countries around the world. Who was this young businessman whose name adorned high street stores in the US until 1997 and the UK until 2009 and whose name is still attached to a landmark skyscraper in New York City?
7. Hüseyin Kalkan was mayor of a city in south-eastern Turkey. He had won battles at the ballot box but he took on a bigger challenge when he attempted to sue Warner Bros. and director, Christopher Nolan, for using his town's name without permission in their films. After rejection by the courts, he was further rejected by the citizens of his city in a subsequent election. What was his city's name?
8. Some rejections are so at odds with our perception of a person that they seem barely plausible. So it is with the eventually world-famous genius responsible for such advances in scientific thinking as energy-matter equivalence and the quantum theory of light. Refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic as a young man after failing the entrance exam, who was this rejected student?
9. Despite having achieved many firsts by being chosen to present the news in Nashville in the mid-1970s, this future worldwide star was later deemed "unfit for television news" and moved to a daytime TV slot. This rejection ultimately helped to open up a new opportunity in Chicago as a talk show host and book clubs, Oscar nominations and billionaire status followed. Who was this failed presenter turned superstar?
10. Some people receive rejections even long after they have made it big. Which English actor of the early cinematic era famously once failed to make the final of his own look-alike competition?
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