Corperate Life
Clue: The big technology company where John Wood worked as a manager.
Answer: What is Microsoft?
Clue: The mountain country John visited for a vacation in 1998.
Answer: What is Nepal?
Clue: The computer message John sent to his friends to ask for donated children's books.
Answer: What is an email?
Clue: The original name of John’s charity before it changed to Room to Read.
Answer: What is Books for Nepal?
Clue: A word that means the ability to read and write.
Answer: What is literacy?
Clue: What John loved about his job at Microsoft—working with smart people and doing this activity around the world.
Answer: What is traveling / doing international business?
Clue: Where the school kept its few books so the children would not damage them.
Answer: What is locked in a cabinet / cupboard?
Clue: The place in Colorado where thousands of donated books were sent.
Answer: What is his parents' garage?
Clue: The local partner from Nepal who helped John start the organization.
Answer: Who is Dinesh?
Clue: A group or charity that works to help people rather than to make money.
Answer: What is a non-profit organization?
Clue: The city in Australia where John lived and worked before he quit his job.
Answer: What is Australia (Sydney)?
Clue: The language of the adult book found in the school library that children could not read.
Answer: What is Italian?
Clue: The total number of books John collected on his very first book drive.
Answer: What is 3,000 books?
Clue: The country John visited to expand his charity outside of Nepal.
Answer: What is Vietnam?
Clue: A long, difficult walk in the mountains.
Answer: What is a trek?
Clue: The number of hours John worked every week at Microsoft because his job was very busy.
Answer: What is 80 hours?
Clue: What the headmaster said to John: "Perhaps, sir, you will return with ____."
Answer: What are books?
Clue: The animals that carried the heavy boxes of books up into the mountains.
Answer: What are donkeys / yaks?
Clue: The high salary, executive status, and valuable company stock shares John gave up when he resigned from his corporate career
Answer: What are his Microsoft salary and stock options?
Clue: The main group of children Room to Read helps through special education scholarships.
Answer: What are girls / young women?
Clue: Why John felt happy about leaving Microsoft, even though he left a lot of money behind.
Answer: What is finding a new purpose / helping children?
Clue: The name of the local guide who walked with John and introduced him to the local schools.
Answer: Who is Pasupathi?
Clue: John’s family member who traveled to Nepal to help carry the books.
Answer: Who is his father (Jim Wood)?
Clue: John’s family member who traveled to Nepal to help carry the books.
Answer: Who is his father (Jim Wood)?
Clue: How John felt at the end of the story, knowing that leaving his corporate life brought literacy, hope, and real purpose to millions of children.
Answer: What is happy, fulfilled, and proud (zero regret)?
Clue: The main goal of Room to Read is to stop this problem by helping children learn to read and stay in school.
Answer: What is illiteracy?