Q 01/05
A) A highway car accident
B) Struck by one of his drives
C) A sudden heart attack
D) A lightning strike on the course
Answer · why
Happy's wife was struck by one of his drives on the course, and the guilt sent him into retirement and alcoholism.
Q 02/05
A) A heart attack at the course
B) Crashing a golf cart
C) Falling out of a window
D) Drowning in a water hazard
Answer · why
Startled by the gift, Chubbs topples backwards, falling out of a window to his death, and returns as a spirit in the final scene.
Q 03/05
A) A parked golf cart
B) A collapsed grandstand
C) A sand bunker
D) A fallen TV tower
Answer · why
A fallen TV tower, toppled by the heckler's car, stands between Happy and the hole, so he banks the ball through it like a Rube Goldberg machine.
Q 04/05
A) Carl Weathers
B) Burt Young
C) Tony Burton
D) Dolph Lundgren
Answer · why
Carl Weathers, Rocky's Apollo Creed, died in February 2024 before filming, so the sequel's ghost scenes were rewritten into tributes to Chubbs.
Q 05/05
A) Sofía Vergara
B) Julie Bowen
C) Sarah Hyland
D) Ariel Winter
Answer · why
Julie Bowen, later Claire Dunphy on Modern Family, plays the PR chief who tames Happy's temper, and returns as his late wife in the sequel.
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