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This Caddyshack trivia quiz has 59 free questions with answers and covers the 1980 golf comedy from the caddie shack to the exploding 18th green. Expect questions on the cast (who plays Ty Webb, Al Czervik, Judge Smails, Danny and Lacey), the characters (Dr. Beeper, Lou Loomis, Maggie O'Hooligan), the plot (the $80,000 match, the yacht christening, the putt on the lip) and the gopher. The making-of stories are the fun part: Bill Murray's six days on set and his improvised Cinderella story, the Chase-Murray scene added because the two stars never shared the screen, the golf course chosen for having no palm trees, the pilot who reported the climax explosions as a plane crash, the hurricane that stalled the shoot, and the tragedy of co-writer Doug Kenney. Kenny Loggins, the reviews, ESPN's verdict, the Dalai Lama and the ill-fated 1988 sequel round it out. Easy questions suit anyone who has seen it once; the hard ones are for people who quote it on the first tee. Every answer has been checked against an encyclopaedic source and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01Caddyshack was released in which year?
1980
Caddyshack opened on July 25, 1980, produced by Orion Pictures and released through Warner Bros.
Q 02Caddyshack was the directorial debut of its co-writer, who went on to direct which 1993 comedy?
Groundhog Day
The director, who also played Egon in Ghostbusters, made Groundhog Day in 1993, with Bill Murray as the weatherman reliving February 2.
Q 03What is the name of the exclusive country club where Caddyshack is set?
Bushwood
Bushwood Country Club is the stuffy club where the film's caddies, members and gopher collide; its grounds were shot at Rolling Hills Golf Club in Davie, Florida.
Q 04Which teenage caddie is the film's protagonist, chasing the club's caddie scholarship?
Danny Noonan
Danny Noonan, played by Michael O'Keefe, is the caddie torn between the scholarship-granting Judge and the loose-living Ty Webb.
Q 05Who plays Ty Webb, the easygoing playboy golfer?
Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase plays Ty Webb, the zen-spouting club golfer who tells the young caddie to 'be the ball' and sinks putts blindfolded.
Q 06Rodney Dangerfield plays which loud nouveau-riche property developer?
Al Czervik
Rodney Dangerfield plays Al Czervik, the loudmouthed developer whose golf bag blares music and who needles the Judge at every turn; it was his breakout film role after years of stand-up.
Q 07Which Mary Tyler Moore Show actor plays pompous club co-founder Judge Elihu Smails?
Ted Knight
Ted Knight, Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, plays Judge Smails; he went on to star as Henry Rush in Too Close for Comfort and died in 1986.
Q 08What is the name of Bill Murray's gopher-obsessed greenskeeper?
Carl Spackler
Carl Spackler is Bill Murray's mumbling assistant greenskeeper, who wages war on the gopher and narrates an imaginary tournament triumph while lopping the heads off flowers.
Q 09What does the greenskeeper plant around the course in his final attempt to kill the gopher?
Plastic explosives
The greenskeeper packs plastic explosives molded into little animals into the gopher's tunnels, blowing up much of the course while the gopher survives unharmed.
Q 10How many days was Bill Murray on the Caddyshack set?
Six
Bill Murray was on set for just six days; he was never meant to have a major part and improvised most of his lines in that window.
Q 11In Bill Murray's improvised Caddyshack monologue, he fantasises about winning which tournament?
The Masters
Murray's greenskeeper imagines himself as a former greenskeeper 'about to become the Masters champion' as he sinks the winning putt at Augusta; the director's only instruction was to act like a child.
Q 12The bit where Ty Webb's ball crashes into the greenskeeper's shack was added late for what reason?
Chase and Murray had never shared a shot
There were worries about the two ex-SNL stars' rivalry, but they stayed friendly and professional throughout.
Q 13Whose memories of caddying at Indian Hill Club in Winnetka, Illinois inspired the film?
Q 21Roughly how much did Caddyshack gross worldwide?
$60 million
Caddyshack took about $60 million worldwide, a strong return on a $6 million budget, with just under $40 million of that in North America.
Q 22How did critics receive Caddyshack on release?
Mixed reviews
Reviews were mixed on release: critics praised Dangerfield and Murray but found the plot shapeless, and the film grew into a cult favorite through cable and home video.
Q 23Which sports network described Caddyshack as 'perhaps the funniest sports movie ever made'?
ESPN
ESPN called Caddyshack 'perhaps the funniest sports movie ever made', a verdict that helped cement its cult standing among golfers.
Brian Doyle-Murray
Brian Doyle-Murray co-wrote the script from his years as a caddie at Indian Hill Club in Winnetka; his brothers Bill and John carried bags there too.
Q 14The moment when a drive hits Judge Smails in the groin was based on something that happened to whom?
Harold Ramis
Ramis said it happened on the second of the only two rounds of golf he had ever played, on a nine-hole public course.
Q 15Why did Ramis pick Rolling Hills Golf Club in Davie, Florida for the golf scenes?
It had no palm trees
Ramis chose Rolling Hills because it had no palm trees and could pass for a Midwestern club like the Illinois course that inspired the film; it was later renamed Grande Oaks Golf Club.
Q 16An incoming pilot at which airport reported the film's climactic explosions, thinking a plane had crashed?
Fort Lauderdale
The blast was staged for real on the course, and a pilot on approach to Fort Lauderdale's airport radioed that a plane had gone down.
Q 17The Fourth of July dinner-dance scene was filmed at a resort in which Florida city?
Boca Raton
The Fourth of July dance was shot at the Boca Raton Hotel and Club, the 1926 Addison Mizner resort, with the young caddie and his girlfriend working the banquet as waitstaff.
Q 18Which storm delayed Caddyshack's eleven-week autumn 1979 shoot?
Hurricane David
Hurricane David, which struck Florida's east coast in early September 1979, interrupted the eleven-week shoot in South Florida.
Q 19Kenny Loggins' theme song for Caddyshack, released three weeks before the film, was called what?
I'm Alright
'I'm Alright' was Kenny Loggins' theme for the film; it climbed to No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the gopher dances to it over the closing credits.
Q 20How many songs on the ten-track Caddyshack soundtrack were performed by Kenny Loggins?
Four
Kenny Loggins performed four of the ten tracks, including 'Make the Move', 'Mr. Night' and 'Lead the Way' alongside his theme song.
Q 24Who plays Lacey Underall, Judge Smails' oversexed niece?
Cindy Morgan
Cindy Morgan made her film debut as Lacey Underall and went on to play Lora and Yori in Tron in 1982.
Q 25Why was Lacey Underall's dive into the pool performed by a professional diver?
She was legally blind without contact lenses
The crew had to guide her up the ladder to the board before the diver took over.
Q 26In Caddyshack's improvised rub-down scene, Lacey's genuine 'You're crazy!' came because Ty Webb did what?
Doused her back with oil
Chase improvised the whole rub-down and suddenly doused Lacey's back with massage oil; the actress's startled 'You're crazy!' was her real reaction and stayed in the film.
Q 27What is the name of the caddie hero's girlfriend, the Irish waitress at the club?
Maggie O'Hooligan
Maggie O'Hooligan, played by Sarah Holcomb with a thick Irish brogue, is the club waitress who fears she is pregnant before it proves a false alarm.
Q 28Who is Judge Smails' regular golf partner in the climactic match?
Dr. Beeper
Dr. Beeper, the pager-carrying physician played by Dan Resin, partners the Judge against Dangerfield's developer and Ty Webb in the final match.
Q 29How much is the final match worth after Dangerfield's character doubles the wager?
$80,000
With the match level on the last hole, Dangerfield's developer calls double or nothing, putting $80,000 on the final putt.
Q 30How does Danny's final putt, balanced on the lip of the hole, finally drop?
Carl's explosives shake the ground
Carl slips away when he sees the wreckage; the gopher emerges unharmed and dances.