This Caddyshack trivia quiz has 60 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
It came out on 25 July, produced by Orion and distributed by Warner Bros.
Q 02Caddyshack was the directorial debut of its co-writer, who went on to direct which 1993 comedy?
Groundhog Day
He also co-wrote Caddyshack and played Egon in Ghostbusters.
Q 03What is the name of the exclusive country club where Caddyshack is set?
Bushwood
Bill Murray and his brothers later opened a Bushwood-themed restaurant at the World Golf Village in Florida.
Q 04Which teenage caddie is the film's protagonist, chasing the club's caddie scholarship?
Danny Noonan
He was played by Michael O'Keefe, fresh from an Oscar nomination for The Great Santini.
Q 05Who plays Ty Webb, the easygoing playboy golfer?
Chevy Chase
He was the only lead to return for the 1988 sequel, in what amounted to a glorified cameo.
Q 06Rodney Dangerfield plays which loud nouveau-riche property developer?
Al Czervik
It was his breakout film role; until then he was known almost entirely as a stand-up comic.
Q 07Which Mary Tyler Moore Show actor plays pompous club co-founder Judge Elihu Smails?
Ted Knight
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
Murray was on the production for only six days and most of his lines were unscripted.
Q 09What does the greenskeeper plant around the course in his final attempt to kill the gopher?
Plastic explosives
The puppet gopher was built by John Dykstra's effects company, which added hydraulics so its ears could move.
Q 10How many days was Bill Murray on the Caddyshack set?
Six
His lines were largely unscripted, and the 'Cinderella story' monologue came from two lines of stage direction.
Q 11In Bill Murray's improvised Caddyshack monologue, he fantasises about winning which tournament?
The Masters
Ramis's only direction 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?
Brian Doyle-Murray
Q 21Roughly how much did Caddyshack gross worldwide?
$60 million
It opened in 656 theatres to $3.1 million and made just under $40 million in North America.
Q 22How did critics receive Caddyshack on release?
Mixed reviews
Dave Kehr said the picture 'lurches from style to style'; TV Guide's rating crept up from two stars to three over the years.
Q 23Which sports network described Caddyshack as 'perhaps the funniest sports movie ever made'?
ESPN
Rotten Tomatoes' consensus praises its 'endlessly quotable dialogue'.
He co-wrote the script and plays caddy-shack manager Lou Loomis; his brothers Bill and John also caddied there.
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
The course was later renamed the Grande Oaks Golf Club.
Q 16An incoming pilot at which airport reported the film's climactic explosions, thinking a plane had crashed?
Fort Lauderdale
Carl's plastic explosives shake the ball into the hole and win the match.
Q 17The Fourth of July dinner-dance scene was filmed at a resort in which Florida city?
Boca Raton
Danny and his girlfriend Maggie work the banquet as waitstaff.
Q 18Which storm delayed Caddyshack's eleven-week autumn 1979 shoot?
Hurricane David
Supporting actor Peter Berkrot later called cocaine 'the fuel that kept the film running'.
Q 19Kenny Loggins' theme song for Caddyshack, released three weeks before the film, was called what?
I'm Alright
It reached the top ten in late September 1980, and the gopher dances to it over the closing scene.
Q 20How many songs on the ten-track Caddyshack soundtrack were performed by Kenny Loggins?
Four
The gopher's closing dance is to his hit single.
Q 24Who plays Lacey Underall, Judge Smails' oversexed niece?
Cindy Morgan
It was her first film; she went straight on to play Yori in Tron.
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
The whole scene was improvised.
Q 27What is the name of Danny's girlfriend, the Irish waitress at the club?
Maggie O'Hooligan
She was based on a real young woman the writers knew from Indian Hill Club.
Q 28Who is Judge Smails' regular golf partner in the climactic match?
Dr. Beeper
They face Czervik and Webb, with the wager impulsively doubled to $80,000.
Q 29How much is the final match worth after Dangerfield's character doubles the wager?
$80,000
Czervik then proposes double or nothing on Danny's 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.