“In any other town, they’d be the bad guys.“
The tagline comes from the Rat Pack original, but we’re talking Clooney and company on this “Ocean’s 11” trivia quiz.
Steven Soderbergh’s jazzy visual style and George Clooney’s modern-day Cary Grant vibe combine in this remake from 2001 that sees Danny Ocean (Clooney) freshly released from prison and planning to assemble a crew and knock over three Las Vegas casinos in one night.
It’s star-studded, stylish and snappy and the plot twists make it well worth a rewatch or three.
On to the game!
- Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt) is in Los Angeles, training young Hollywood actors in the back room of a trendy club on how to play cards convincingly. Which five late ’90s TV show stars is he cold-decking? (Extra credit: What five shows were they known for?)
- What name is Frank (Bernie Mac) going by in order to deal blackjack at a casino in Atlantic City when Danny approaches him about the plan?
- What are the first names of the Malloy brothers, the crew’s drivers played by Casey Affleck and Scott Caan?
- Rusty tells Danny that the job will require a complex set of cons, working at the same time: a Boesky, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, two Jethros and a Leon Spinks. Not to the mention the biggest what ever?
- Which three casinos does the crew aim to rob, thanks to them all being connected to the same vault system?
Find the answers after this explainer of the plan with kickass wireframe diagrams and everything:
Answers:
- Topher Grace (“That ’70s Show), Barry Watson (“7th Heaven”), Holly Marie Combs (“Charmed”), Joshua Jackson (“Dawson’s Creek”) and Shane West (“Once and Again”).
- Ramón
- Turk and Virgil
- Ella Fitzgerald
- The Mirage, The Bellagio and the MGM Grand