“The Gentleman” Chris Adams entered the match with a singles record of 0-0. This was his first career First Class League match.
“The Pun-isher” Alana Jordan entered the match with a singles record of 0-0. This was her first career First Class League match.
First Round
Adams missed two questions, scoring six out of a possible eight points. Jordan missed five question(s), scoring three out of a possible eight points. The missed questions were:
Category: New Releases
Frances McDormand plays Fern, a woman who lost everything in the great recession, in what 2020 film?
Jordan’s Answer: didn’t have one
Correct Answer: Nomadland
Category: Directors
Who directed Forrest Gump, The Polar Express, and What Lies Beneath?
Jordan’s Answer: Half-wrote Zemeckis
Correct Answer: Robert Zemeckis
Category: 1990s
What 1997 David Fincher thriller stars Michael Douglas as a wealthy man haunted by his father’s suicide and Sean Penn as his younger brother?
Jordan’s Answer: didn’t have it
Correct Answer: The Game
Category: Mystery/Thriller
This 2016 mystery based on a Paula Hawkins novel stars Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux, and Luke Evans and follows an alcoholic divorcee who gets involved in a missing person’s investigation?
Jordan’s Answer: didn’t have one
Adams’s Answer: Gone Girl
Correct Answer: The Girl On The Train
Category: Crime
Who stars as Henry Hill alongside Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci in the 1990 biographical crime film Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorsese?
Jordan’s Answer: Al Pacino
Adams’s Answer: Al Pacino
Correct Answer: Ray Liotta
The score at the end of the first round was 6-3 to Adams.
Second Round
Adams deferred so Jordan spun first. She got Spinner’s Choice and chose TMNT. She answered four out of four questions correctly and earned eight out of a possible eight points.
Adams spun Musicians in Film, decided to spin again, and got 2000s. He answered four out of four questions correctly and earned eight out of a possible eight points.
The score at the end of round two was 14-11 to Adams.
Third Round
Jordan’s two-point question was in the category of M. Night Shymalan and she got it correct.
Who stars as David Dunn, the mysterious sole survivor of a train crash, in Unbreakable?
Jordan’s Answer: Bruce Willis
Correct Answer: Bruce Willis
Jordan’s three-point question was in the category of Comedies and she got it correct.
What 1985 mystery comedy stars Madeleine Kahn as Mrs. White, Tim Curry as Wadsworth, and Christopher Lloyd as Professor Plum?
Jordan’s Answer: Clue
Correct Answer: Clue
Adams’s two-point question was in the category of Horror and he got it incorrect.
Who directed the 1976 supernatural horror film Carrie based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, and starring Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, and John Travolta?
Adams’s Answer: Wes Craven
Correct Answer: Brian DePalma
Adams’s three-point question was in the category of Fantasy/Sci-Fi and he got it incorrect.
This 2008 fantasy film stars Freddie Highmore as twins whose family moves to New England where one of them discovers a field guide full of magical creatures written by his grandfather?
Adams’s Answer: didn’t have one
Correct Answer: The Spiderwick Chronicles
Adams’s five-point question was in the category of Action/Adventure and he got it correct.
This 1999 film directed by Troy Duffy and featuring Willem Dafoe stars Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flannery as fraternal twins who become vigilantes after killing two members of the Russian mafia in self-defense.
Adams’s Answer: Boondock Saints
Correct Answer: Boondock Saints
Jordan’s five-point question was in the category of Scores and Soundtracks and she got it incorrect.
Released posthumously, which 2016 film featured the final score of composer James Horner?
Jordan’s Answer: Ice Age: Collison Course
Correct Answer: The Magnificent 7
The final score was 19-16 to Adams.
Other Details
Jordan answered 9 of the 15 questions asked to her correctly for an accuracy of 60%. Her record is now 0-1.
Adams answered 11 of the 15 questions asked to him correctly for an accuracy of 73.33%. His record is now 1-0.
