Monday, June 5, 2017

IF MY OWN LIFE STORY HAD BEEN A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE-IN-THE-MAKING, THE FOLLOWING TRIVIA QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT MOVIE MIGHT HAVE BEEN FEATURED INSIDE A MOVIE THEATER:



---TRIVIA QUESTION:
Which former "Daily Texan" student newspaper newsroom coworker of John Kevin McMillan volunteered to him on the telephone in 1988 from her and her husband's home in Dallas, Texas: "Your experience in Massachusetts and Texas reminds me of my (Mrs. Margaret Watson's) 
dear mother in Louisiana, where I (Margaret Watson) grew up. Mother repeatedly complained about hearing voices, and that tragic delusion by Mother gave her lots of problems in Louisiana throughout much of her adult life"? (approximate quote)


CORRECT ANSWER: Margaret Watson.


--TRIVIA QUESTION:

Which one total personal friend of John Kevin McMillan was Westlake Hills resident Mrs. Phyllis Delores Gardner McMillan on her own initiative very insistent about herself repaying in full within a day or so on behalf of her son John for a kind and generous $100 personal loan that the cited personal friend of John McMillan had made to him in 1988 or 1987?

CORRECT ANSWER: Mrs. Margaret Watson of Dallas, Texas, with it being very apparent to John Kevin McMillan at the time that his mother had a very favorable impression of Margaret Watson and her freelance photographer husband, Tres Watson.



---TRIVIA QUESTION:

Which former "Daily Texan" student newspaper photographer coworker of John Kevin McMillan volunteered on the telephone in the early 1990s, during a long-distance phone call that John McMillan made to that married man and his wife's Dallas, Texas, home from the Austin area of Texas: "Not in Austin (though). Austin (Texas) is one city where you don't have to ever worry about ever being put in a psychiatric institution"?

CORRECT ANSWER: Tres Watson, husband of Margaret Watson.


--TRIVIA QUESTION:

Which news editor of the "Big Spring (Texas) Herald," a daily newspaper reportedly owned by a Canadian media company, in late 1989 gave newly hired "Big Spring Herald" regional-beat reporter John Kevin McMillan a tour of the west Texas city of Big Spring involving an automobile ride in which that news editor very abruptly and completely on his own initiative volunteered to Mr. McMillan: "That over there is Big Spring State Hospital. You don't have to ever worry about that place, since only the crazy (sic) people (sic) get put there"?

CORRECT ANSWER: Steve Ray, who himself later in the 1990s relocated along with his wife and family to Austin, Texas, and volunteered that information about most recently being a freelance writer in Austin when he politely greeted Mr. McMillan inside a Copper Kettle chain restaurant in far south Austin, a restaurant where each of them were dining separately.


---TRIVIA QUESTION:

Which U.S. state did John Kevin McMillan's oldest brother, Kent Neal McMillan of south Austin in Austin, Texas---or possibly it was instead former Austin High School schoolmate and debate squad colleague McDonald Smith Jr. of Austin who made that comment to John McMillan on the telephone---specifically cite as being one U.S. state where it would be "illegal" (exact quote) for any resident of that state or any institution in that state to participate in any way in John Kevin McMillan's circumstances and living conditions during the early 1990s, with Kent McMillan's (or possibly McDonald Smith Jr.'s) oral statement having occurred in the context of assuring John on the telephone that there was ZERO outside interference in John's own living conditions in the early 1990s that was emanating in any way from the cited U.S. state or any permanent residents of that U.S. state.

CORRECT ANSWER: "Minnesota", Kent McMillan (or possibly McDonald Smith Jr. from his own residence in Austin) stated from his end of the phone line during a local phone call that John McMillan made to Kent's and Kent's wife's home from John McMillan's temporary housing unit in a tiny efficiency-style hotel room at Kensington Motor Lodge in east Austin.  


--TRIVIA QUESTION:

Which personal friend of John Kevin McMillan volunteered to him on the telephone in 1988, during a long-distance phone call that John McMillan made from his rental duplex apartment unit in El Campo, Texas, to the home of that attorney friend of his in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with John McMillan expressing concern about alleged possible harassment of Mr. McMillan himself in Texas: "THIS THING'S GOING TO COURT!", with that Minneapolis-based friend adding in response to a follow-up question from John that the cited legal issue of the expected legal action in a courtroom would be "privacy rights", according to that attorney friend?

CORRECT ANSWER: Mark H.B. Williamson, a Columbia University Law School alumnus and University of Minnesota in Minneapolis alumnus.


 ---TRIVIA QUESTION:
What advice did Sara McMillan, an Austin-based sister-in-law of John Kevin McMillan, offer him on the telephone in 1988, after he stated to her that he tentatively planned to sell the Greek stamp album he owned from his childhood in order to himself obtain some spending money for himself during a period of unemployment and severe financial hardship for himself in Austin, Texas?

 CORRECT ANSWER: "I urge you NOT to sell your Greek stamp album! That stamp album of yours (featuring numerous postage stamps that were issued by Greece over a multi-decade period, including during Nazi Germany's occupation of Greece in World War II) is very special!"

 ---TRIVIA QUESTION:
What advice did Mrs. Phyllis McMillan offer to her youngest son, John Kevin McMillan, in 1988 during a period of unemployment for him in which he was not able to land a journalism job for himself in Austin, Texas?

 CORRECT ANSWER: "You could apply for a job at the American Atheist Association Press in north Austin, and Madalyn Murray O'Hair will be your head work supervisor there."


---TRIVIA QUESTION:

Which comment did Professor and Dean Elspeth Rostow of the University of Texas at Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs in 1981 volunteer to John Kevin McMillan during a long-distance phone call that the latter individual made to her faculty office in Austin from the lobby of the Parkway Motor Hotel near Minehaha Falls in either southeast or south Minneapolis, a hotel where Mr. McMillan was employed full-time at during that period as a midnight-to-8 a.m. hotel desk clerk:

CORRECT ANSWER: "I (Professor Rostow, a former instructor at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was sorry to hear that you had turned into a desk clerk."


---TRIVIA QUESTION:

Which emphatic reply did famous atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair on her own initiative verbalize to John Kevin McMillan during a local phone call he made to her workplace in north Austin from his parents' home in Westlake Hills, Texas, in the early  1990s, a phone call that was made by John McMillan during a period of unemployment for John McMillan in which he was desperately seeking a journalism job in the Austin area and did not himself have any relationship with any mental health professional:

CORRECT ANSWER: "We don't have any job for you here at our American Atheist publications in north Austin. Your psychiatric (sic) problems (sic) are so severe (near-exact quote) that it will take many years of additional treatment for you to get cured!"


---TRIVIA QUESTION:

Which loudly verbalized and indignant outburst did Madalyn Murray O'Hair during a workday in 1988 shout inside the workplace she reportedly presided over in north Austin a matter of minutes before an assistant of hers, Robyn O'Hair, called a proofreader for their publication, John Kevin McMillan, from his office area where the door was open, to Robyn O'Hair's separate office at that workplace and then herself informed him that he had  been fired from his job at that publication?

CORRECT ANSWER: "I (Madalyn Murray O'Hair) CANNOT HANDLE THESE VOICES! GET HIM OUT OF HERE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!" (exact or near-exact quote)


--TRIVIA QUESTION:

Which cited "reason" for firing John Kevin McMillan did Robyn O'Hair cite during her brief in-person one-to-one meeting with full-time proofreader John McMillan in 1988?

CORRECT ANSWER: "Your decision to call the Travis County Lawyer Referral Service from your office here today, a phone call you were overheard making in which you stated that you felt you had a need for an attorney because of cited violations of your own privacy rights in Austin, was completely unacceptable and grounds for immediate dismissal" (approximate quote).


---TRIVIA QUESTION:

Which referral did Albuquerque, New Mexico-based first-rate private attorney and very distinguished and honorable Stephen F. Austin High School alumnus Ellen Thorne Skrak volunteer in writing in a 1997 signed legal letter on her law firm's official stationery that Ms. Skrak very kindly wrote and mailed to a former Austin High debate squad colleague of hers, John Kevin McMillan, during a period when he himself resided as a rent-paying official tenant at an apartment complex along Salado Street, Camino Real Apartments, near the campus of the University of Texas at Austin?

CORRECT ANSWER: A referral to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), with Ms. Thorne Skrak having helpfully advised John McMillan in writing to himself directly contact the ACLU for assistance on what she indicated as being an apparent Constitutional rights issue he was himself facing during that time period in Austin, Texas.


---TRIVIA QUESTION:

Which female African-American recent former City Attorney of Austin in 2017 surprised John Kevin McMillan by herself contacting him by e-mail and asking him to agree to let her become a "Linked In" professional contact of his, with herself then choosing not to offer him any reply phone call or any reply e-mail note after McMillan pressed the button agreeing to the requested "Linked In" connection with her, with John McMillan having then made a polite courtesy follow-up phone call to her private law office in Austin and John McMillan having also written and sent a polite courtesy follow-up e-mail note to her at her own professional e-mail address at that private law firm in Austin.

CORRECT ANSWER: Karen Kennard.


---TRIVIA QUESTION:

Which male adult reporter coworker of John Kevin McMillan at the "El Campo Leader-News" semi-weekly newspaper in El Campo, Texas, volunteered in person to John McMillan inside the newsroom of that publication in 1988 or 1989 that "I (that reporter coworker) have never had a problem before of getting headaches while on duty at my newspaper workplace. But here at this newspaper, I myself have been getting lots of headaches on a daily basis and I have had to take aspirin for it on a frequent basis!"

CORRECT ANSWER: Dale Robertson, a self-identified veteran newspaper reporter in Texas.


---TRIVIA QUESTION:

Which El Campo "Leader-News" reporter with a thick Texas accent in 1988 or 1989 discussed with reporter coworker John Kevin McMillan an interview the former individual had conducted in the El Campo area a matter of days or hours before, and after which the cited reporter had written a feature story based on that interview of his that appeared in the El Campo "Leader-News", with the living male subject who was profiled in that article, a male visitor or resident in the El Campo area, having stated repeatedly in that published feature story that during World War II, when he served Germany as a general of the German Military in that war, he very definitely DID NOT have any ties of his own to the Nazi Party or to the Nazis, and he himself conducted himself very honorably on behalf of Germany throughout World War II?

CORRECT ANSWER: Dale Robertson.


---TRIVIA QUESTION:

Which northern European nation did a longtime personal friend of John Kevin McMillan, Carol See, directly refer to on the telephone when she stated to McMillan during a long-distance phone call he made in 1990 or 1991 from his apartment unit in Sweetwater, Texas, to her and her physician husband's home in Columbia, Maryland, that if McMillan were to visit that particular European country, "I'm (Carol See) sure (sic) the people of that country would be interested in listening to the voices (exact or near-exact quote throughout, with 'the voices' being an exact verbatim quote of the word she used)"?

CORRECT ANSWER: England.


---TRIVIA QUESTION:

Which era of British history did a Texan woman volunteer to John Kevin McMillan during a brief conversation she had with him in Pampa, Texas, in 1993 or early 1994, as being the era that John McMillan himself most embodied through his own values and conduct and lifestyle, in her opinion?

CORRECT ANSWER: The Victorian Age, under the leadership of Queen Victoria as the ruling monarch.


---TRIVIA QUESTION:

Which oral statement did a Hispanic woman in 1999 shriek loudly from her office desk as a state agency employee coworker of hers, John Kevin McMillan, walked politely a matter of feet from her desk inside the Texas Legislative Council state government agency headquarters in the downtown section of the state capital city of Austin?

CORRECT ANSWER: "FREAK OF NATURE!"


---TRIVIA QUESTION:

In which IHOP chain franchise-owned restaurant did a male waiter coworker in 2002 or 2003 state to John Kevin McMillan, also a waiter on duty that in that restaurant, that "You yourself don't need to wear any costume for Halloween during your workshift here that evening. You are scary enough as you are."

CORRECT ANSWER: IHOP Duval restaurant, situated in northwest Austin near Duval and Research Boulevard.


---TRIVIA QUESTION:

What was the reply he received from her on the telephone roughly eight years ago when John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas, politely asked his biological sister, Julie McMillan Lechtenberger of Houston, whose husband is a private attorney, whether she supports privacy rights for her brother John?

CORRECT ANSWER: "I don't know whether I (Julie) support privacy rights for you (brother John)."


---TRIVIA QUESTION:

Which one total reason did Kent Neal McMillan of south Austin cite on the telephone to younger brother John Kevin McMillan in the first decade of the 21st Century as the primary or sole reason why brother John had made virtually zero personal friends from among the hundreds of total coworkers of John's at John's numerous total respective restaurant workplaces in the Austin area?

CORRECT ANSWER: "The reason why you never become personal friends with any of your restaurant coworkers in Austin is because none of them has the career background you have in journalism. Because you are a former newspaper reporter yourself, you have very little in common with your coworkers."


---TRIVIA QUESTION:

How long did the job interview with John Kevin McMillan last that was conducted by a blonde Anglo female editor at the "Galveston Daily News" and a male Anglo editor the "Wichita Falls (Texas)" general circulation newspaper, respectively, in the early or mid-1990s, respectively?

CORRECT ANSWER: Sixty seconds or less before each of those two respective newspaper editors volunteered to John McMillan in person inside that editor's office after John McMillan had driven 100 or more miles to that pre-scheduled job interview he had been granted in advance at each of those respected newspapers, that there was no job for him at that publication and the interview was over, this in a context in which John McMillan himself was not faulted for impoliteness or unprofessionalism by either of those editors during either of those two quickie job "interviews".




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