Gerald's Game Trivia Quiz

Answer: Dog

Married couple Jess and Gerald pack up for a weekend and drive on up to their cabin for a sexy getaway together. Their trip starts as innocuously as one would expect. While driving up, Jess and Gerald come across a stray dog and Jess, finding too much meat in the fridge, decides to feed the animal. Gerald, meanwhile, takes a Viagra and brings Jess inside, rushing her into the cabin without even closing the door. Before long, the two of them end up in the bedroom, Jess in a new negligee and Gerald with a couple of pair of handcuffs.

He places them around her wrists and tightens them around the bedposts.

Answer: Heart attack

A bit of kinky role-play between the two doesn't go as planned when Gerald immediately goes a bit too far. Jess knows that it won't save the two in their relationship and urges her husband to grab the keys to the cuffs to help her off the bed, but he doesn't, instead continuing to make the moves.

But things go from bad to worse when Gerald seems to have chest pains. The chest pains, as it seems, are a heart attack, and when he collapses on Jess and she rolls him off of her, he collapses to the floor and doesn't get up.

She sees the blood pooling around his head from where he hit it falling off the bed and realizes that something very horrible has happened.

Answer: True

As the day wears on, Jess struggles with her situation, realizing how horribly trapped she really is. With the darkness creeping in, she starts to hear noises outside her window and, eventually, from down the hall. The stray dog from outside ends up hearing Jess' cries for help and, because the front door is open, finds his way to the bedroom where it starts salivating over Gerald's body. Jess, traumatized as the dog starts biting into Gerald's flesh, almost believes that Gerald will wake up and start talking to her, but he doesn't.

He's dead. She's pretty much on her own. And she's running out of time.

Answer: A phone

Jess has to start reasoning with herself (or with Gerald, as it seems) since the sun is starting to set, meaning that, at that point, it's been about five hours. Because the house was done up for them, no one will be around for a while, so screaming won't get her noticed on their quiet lakefront.

She won't break the bedposts because they're reinforced, and she won't squeeze her hands out of the cuffs; they're real cuffs and they won't snap quicker than her bones. Jess tries going for the iPhone sitting on her nightstand, but she can't reach it. That's when she realizes that her head is starting to ache.

She needs water. She won't live without it.

Answer: On a shelf

Fortunately, there's a bit of a solution for Jess. She remembers the Viagra that Gerald needed to take before they hopped into bed, and because he ended up doing that, he ended up leaving a glass of water on the shelf above them, and if she shifts her handcuffs up the bedposts just enough, she can reach that shelf.

She's able to slide the glass over to her right hand, but she quickly finds that she can not bring the glass to her mouth because of the cuffs. But there's another moment of quick thought. Because she just recently bought her new slip, she left the tag for the purchase on the shelf as well.

She grabs that, rolls it up, and makes it into a straw she can use to sip the water from the glass. The dog, meanwhile, continues to chew at Gerald.

Answer: Mouse

Jess falls asleep knowing that she'll need her energy for the coming day. If anyone is going to show up, it'll be in the morning. That night, however, she doesn't notice as the dog is spooked by something outside. Its barking wakes her up, and when she does, she sees someone standing in a dark corner of the room doing no more than watching her from the shadows.

He moves closer, opening a case to show her jewellery and bones, but she closes her eyes, believing that the ghoul in front of her isn't real. She's distracted by a vision of Gerald that manifests in her mind, and this proves to be even more concerning.

When he refers to her as 'Mouse', it triggers a memory of her as a child, going to a cottage with her family. The memory is particularly traumatic and what happened more than shaped Jess' life from that moment on.

Answer: Solar eclipse

Jess wakes up to horrible cramps from hanging from the handcuffs in bed all night. After another drink of water she tries to reason through her life from that point, blaming everything but her father for what happened during the solar eclipse and, perhaps, even realizing that her life since then hasn't changed. Gerald is very much like her father was. Jess never told anyone about what happened that day on the lake, partly because her father guilted her into avoiding saying anything. There's also the fear of the man who was in the corner of her room the previous night. Jess has to contemplate if he was real or not, and a footprint on the ground is certainly evidence enough for the former.

At one point, Jess falls into a light sleep and dreams of being woken up to the man from the corner of the room licking her feet.

It's actually the dog though, tasting what it hopes to be its next meal.

Answer: The glass

Jess knows she's running out of time. No one is coming. Even if someone does, the caretaker won't arrive for a while, and Gerald's co-workers won't start searching until the end of the week. Jess fears that if and when that happens, the man from the corner will already have taken something from her, perhaps a small bone, to put in his case. If she doesn't get out by nighttime, she may have to face that. Jess dreams once again, this time of her younger self who tells her that she has had everything she's needed to survive from the very beginning, and it had nothing to do with the eclipse or the boat.

It was the glass. She remembers breaking a glass when she was younger, after the eclipse, and how it cut her hand. And she knows what she must do.

The thing about blood is that until it clots, it's as slick as oil.

Answer: True

As risky as the whole venture is, and as nervous as she is, Jess realizes that she has to move fast, otherwise nothing will matter. Quickly, she grabs the water glass, dumps the remains, and smashes it on the shelf overhead, creating a jagged piece she can properly use. She wedges it into the shelf and begins cutting around her wrist, tearing despite the pain. When she gets enough, she pulls her hand through the cuff, ripping her way free. Loaded with adrenaline, Jess quickly gets off the bed and pushes it over, reaching for the phone on the nightstand with her feet. That proves useless though; the phone is dead. So she moves onto plan B, pulling the bed across the room with her to reach for the keys to the cuffs on the table across the room.
And she does it.
She quickly rushes to the bathroom counter for water and bandages and, as she spies the car keys across the room, she passes out.

Answer: Yes

Jess manages to wake up when the dog tries to go for her leg again, and when she does it's nighttime. She picks herself up, somehow, and grabs the keys, but when she turns around, the dog seems to be afraid. Sure enough, as Jess leaves the bedroom, the man from the corner is there at the end of the hall. She walks straight towards him and gives him her wedding ring before getting into the car and driving away, leaving the cabin behind. A quick look in her rearview mirror as she begins to pass out confirms her greatest fear though: the man from the corner is in the back seat and the eclipse glows red above her. The car collides with a tree.

The car, as it turns out, crashes near a local house and she's found and rushed to a local hospital. After three skin grafts, many months later, Jess admits that she blocked out the memory. She still dreams of the man from the corner of her room, a man who would be determined to be a real serial killed named Raymond Andrew Joubert. She would, eventually, go to that man's trial. Joubert would recite what happened to her on the stand and she would know that he was real. Nevertheless, she would be able to walk away from him. Like her father and Gerald before him, he would be smaller than she remembered.