The Consilium Cup Golf Trivia Challenge: The Answers

This week we let you in on the in-house Golf Trivia Contest that enlivened the soon-to-be-world-famous Consilium Cup. Today. as promised: the answers.

Part One: Hard Core Golf Trivia


1) What club was once referred to as "the Mashie?

The five iron.

2) What are the odds of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf?

A) 1 in 670,000?
B) 1 in 6,700,000?
C) 1 in 67,000,000? 

3) How long is the longest golf course in the world?

A) 5,488 yards?
B) 8,325 yards
C) 11,721 yards?

4) How many dimples on a regulation golf ball? (No Fair Counting!)

A) 156?
B) 226?
C) 336? 

5) Golf was actually invented in…

A) Japan?
B) Scotland?
C) Greece? 

6) The longest golf HOLE in the world, on the Satsuki Golf Club in Japan, measures:

A) 964 yards.
B) 808 Yards
C) 707 Yards 

7) How many golf courses are there in North America?

A) 11,000
B) 21,000
C) 51,000 

8)Which country has the largest number of recreational golfers per capita in the world?

A) The USA
B) Canada
C) Japan 

9) How many golf balls are currently on the Moon?

Three.

Part Deux: Which movies (which are not all "golf' movies, incidentally) gave us the following lines?

1) "This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ah, of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on this stuff." 
-from Caddyshack

2) "He can't do that to our pledges! Only WE can do that to our pledges!!"
-from Animal House

3) "Easy peasy lemon squeasy."
-from The Greatest Game Ever Played

4) "If that's his original ball, I'm Arnold Palmer".
"It isn't".
"How do you know?"
"Because I'm standing on it." 
-from Goldfinger

5) "You little son of a bitch ball! Why you don't you just go HOME? That's your HOME! Are you too good for your HOME? ANSWER ME!"
-from Happy Gilmore

6) "The feds had been watching Nicky play golf for so long that they ran out of gas. A hundred dollars to whoever hits the plane!"
-from Casino

7) "You should have children playing here! You should have families having picnics! You should have a goddamned petting zoo! But NO! You got these stupid electric carts for you old men with nothing better to do! And now you're gonna die wearing that stupid little hat!" 
-from Falling Down

8) "I wish they wouldn't land those things here when we're trying to play golf." 
-from M*A*S*H*

9) "I hear you lost your swing. I guess we got to go find it." 
-from The Legend of Bagger Vance.



So. How did you do? Don't feel bad - the top score at the Consilium tournaments was an embarrassing 7.