Caddyshack Trivia
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This Caddyshack trivia quiz has 97 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 01President Obama's 2014 tribute to Harold Ramis hoped he had received what, borrowing a Caddyshack line?
Total consciousness
Total consciousness is the deathbed reward Murray's greenskeeper boasts of in a caddying yarn Murray improvised, as he did most of his lines; Obama's statement closed with it.
Q 02Caddyshack was the directorial debut of its co-writer, who went on to direct which 1993 comedy?
Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day went to Bill Murray only after Ramis's first choice, Tom Hanks, passed, and later said audiences would sit waiting for a nice guy like him to turn good.
Q 03What is the name of the exclusive country club where Caddyshack is set?
Bushwood
Bushwood returns in Caddyshack II, where a developer the club turned away buys majority control and turns it into a gaudy mini-golf park.
Q 04Which teenage caddie is Caddyshack's protagonist, chasing the club's caddie scholarship?
Danny Noonan
Danny Noonan nearly went to Mickey Rourke, one of two finalists the filmmakers weighed, before Michael O'Keefe won the part.
Q 05Who plays Ty Webb, the easygoing playboy golfer?
Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase plays Ty Webb and was the only star who came back for Caddyshack II, in what amounted to a glorified cameo.
Q 06Rodney Dangerfield plays which loud nouveau-riche property developer?
Al Czervik
Rodney Dangerfield plays Al Czervik, a part Ramis first leaned toward giving Don Rickles before Dangerfield's run on The Tonight Show won him over.
Q 07Which Mary Tyler Moore Show actor plays Caddyshack's pompous Judge Elihu Smails?
Ted Knight
Ted Knight plays Judge Smails; Caddyshack II, made after his death in 1986, handed a Smails-style snob to Robert Stack instead.
Q 08What is the name of Bill Murray's gopher-obsessed greenskeeper?
Carl Spackler
Carl Spackler began as a small part, but the writers kept adding scenes for the greenskeeper during the shoot as Murray riffed his way through them.
Q 09What does Caddyshack's greenskeeper plant around the course in his final attempt to kill the gopher?
Plastic explosives
Plastic explosives, molded into little animals, blow up the course, and the tremors tip the final putt into the cup while the gopher survives.
Q 10In Bill Murray's improvised Caddyshack monologue, he fantasises about winning which tournament?
The Masters
The Masters is the title Murray's greenskeeper imagines winning while lopping flower heads, a speech he improvised and nailed in one or two takes.
Q 11Why was the Caddyshack scene where a ball hits the greenskeeper's shack added late?
Two stars had never shared a shot
Two stars had never shared a shot, so Murray and the actor playing Ty Webb worked the scene out over lunch and shot it that night, despite old friction between them.
Q 12What Zen golf advice does Ty Webb give his young caddie in Caddyshack?
Be the ball
Be the ball caps Ty's Zen pitch, and that mystical streak was co-writer Douglas Kenney's contribution, drawn from his fascination with Zen Buddhism.
Q 13One of Caddyshack's stars has said the film isn't really about golf but about what instead?
Class
Q 21How did critics receive Caddyshack on release?
Mixed reviews
Mixed reviews greeted it, though Roger Ebert wrote that to the degree it was anybody's movie, it was Rodney Dangerfield's.
Q 22Which 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.
Q 23Who plays Caddyshack's Lacey Underall, Judge Smails's oversexed niece?
Cindy Morgan
Cindy Morgan objected when a Playboy photographer was booked to shoot her during filming, and in the end the pictorial never took place.
Class, snobs versus slobs, is how that star framed it, and the club comedy grew out of Brian Doyle-Murray and his brother Bill's days as caddies.
Q 14Why did Ramis choose a Davie, Florida, course for Caddyshack's golf scenes?
It had no palm trees
It had no palm trees, so it could pass for the Midwest, though Ramis also admitted they took it by default after nicer clubs refused to shut down for a film.
Q 15An incoming pilot at which airport reported Caddyshack's climactic explosions, thinking a plane had crashed?
Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale's airport sat near the course, whose owners had not approved the fireballs and, the story goes, were lured to an off-site meeting while the crew set them off.
Q 16Caddyshack's Fourth of July dinner-dance scene was filmed at a resort in which Florida city?
Boca Raton
Boca Raton's grand hotel and club hosted the dance, but not everything was shot in Florida: the club's entrance gates are Bel-Air's West Gate in Los Angeles.
Q 17Which 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 18What is the name of Kenny Loggins's theme song for Caddyshack?
I'm Alright
I'm Alright was written after Loggins had watched a rough cut of the film, and it returns at the end when the gopher dances.
Q 19Which rock singer can be heard singing the bridge on Kenny Loggins's theme song for Caddyshack?
Eddie Money
Eddie Money sang the bridge, yet in 2014 he complained that Loggins had never given him credit for it.
Q 20What did Harold Ramis jokingly call Caddyshack, his $6 million debut as a director?
A scholarship to film school
A scholarship to film school is how Ramis summed it up, because he had never directed before and later admitted he had no clue what he was doing.
Q 24Why could Caddyshack's Lacey Underall actress barely see on the diving board?
She was legally blind without contact lenses
She was legally blind without contact lenses, which she couldn't wear for the pool scene, so she had to climb the ladder to the board blind.
Q 25In Caddyshack's improvised rub-down scene, Lacey's genuine 'You're crazy!' came because Ty Webb did what?
Doused her back with oil
Ty doused her back with oil on purpose and off-script, and his comeback to her outburst, that they said the same about Son of Sam, stayed in the film.
Q 26What is the name of Caddyshack's Irish club waitress, the caddie hero's girlfriend?
Maggie O'Hooligan
Maggie O'Hooligan soon has a rival, because Judge Smails's niece Lacey seduces her boyfriend right after the Judge's boat christening falls apart.
Q 27Who is Judge Smails's regular golf partner in Caddyshack's climactic match?
Dr. Beeper
Dr. Beeper is the partner Dangerfield's developer dubs Frankenputz when he turns a one-on-one challenge into a team match for twice the money.
Q 28Caddyshack's Judge Smails lectures a young caddie that he has sentenced boys younger than him to what?
The gas chamber
The gas chamber is the Judge's boast, and he adds that he didn't want to do it but felt he owed it to them.
Q 29Asked how he measures himself against other golfers, since he doesn't keep score, what does Caddyshack's Ty Webb answer?
By height
By height is Ty's deadpan reply to Judge Smails, who then brags he's no slouch himself and is told he's a tremendous slouch.
Q 30For which film did Caddyshack's Michael O'Keefe earn a supporting-actor Oscar nomination?
The Great Santini
The Great Santini earned O'Keefe that nomination as the son of a Marine pilot who, competitive even at backyard basketball, bounces the ball off the boy's head.