100 Bond Trivia Questions

Dr. No (1962), the first Eon Productions James Bond film.

Sean Connery, debuting as Bond in Dr. No (1962).

007, always articulated as "double-oh-seven".

"Shaken, not stirred" — Bond's signature vodka martini order.

Q — "Q" stands for Quartermaster, head of Q Branch, MI6's research and development division.

M, the head of MI6 and Bond's boss.

Miss Moneypenny, M's secretary.

The Aston Martin DB5, supplied to Bond by Q in Goldfinger (1964).

Auric Goldfinger.

Pierce Brosnan, whose four Bond films began with GoldenEye (1995).

Daniel Craig, making his debut as Bond in Casino Royale (2006).

The "00" (double-oh) prefix designates an MI6 agent holding a licence to kill in the performance of their duties.

Jaws, played by Richard Kiel, distinguished by his metal (steel-capped) teeth.

Shirley Bassey sang "Goldfinger".

George Lazenby, in his sole Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).

Moonraker (1979), in which Bond follows the trail to a space station and into outer space.

Timothy Dalton, in his only two Bond films, The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989).

Roger Moore, with seven Eon films from Live and Let Die (1973) to A View to a Kill (1985).

No Time to Die (2021), the fifth and final film of Daniel Craig's five-film run.

Oddjob, Auric Goldfinger's henchman in Goldfinger, known for his deadly steel-rimmed bowler hat.

Adele performed "Skyfall", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song (the first Bond theme to do so).

Ian Fleming, British author and former Naval Intelligence officer, created James Bond.

Casino Royale, Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, published 13 April 1953.

Francisco Scaramanga (played by Christopher Lee), identifiable by his third nipple.

Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.

Operation Grand Slam — detonate a dirty (atomic) bomb to irradiate the Fort Knox gold and make it unusable (one account specifies 58 years), raising the value of Goldfinger's own gold.

Dame Judi Dench, who first played M in GoldenEye (1995) and held the role through Skyfall (2012).

Tracy di Vicenzo (Teresa "Tracy" Di Vicenzo, later Tracy Bond), whom Bond marries in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).

Paul McCartney and Wings performed "Live and Let Die".

25 Eon Productions films, from Dr. No (1962) to No Time to Die (2021).

Rosa Klebb appears in From Russia with Love (1963).

A poison-tipped blade (a stiletto in the film; fugu-toxin-laced in the novel) concealed in her shoe.

Donald Pleasence, in You Only Live Twice (1967) — the first film in which Blofeld's face is clearly seen; earlier films showed only the back of his head and his voice.

Goldeneye (also styled GoldenEye) — Fleming's Jamaican house, whose name was later used for the 1995 film GoldenEye.

Two NATO atomic bombs, stolen from a Vulcan bomber, which SPECTRE uses to hold the world to ransom.

Nancy Sinatra sang the You Only Live Twice theme.

'Little Nellie' is a Wallis WA-116 autogyro, delivered in four suitcases/packing cases — but it was assembled by personnel provided by the Japanese secret service, overseen by Q, not assembled by Q himself. The "assembled by Q" detail in the sample answer is imprecise.

Ursula Andress played Honey Ryder, the leading Bond girl in Dr. No.

Dr. No's base is on Crab Key, an island off Jamaica.

You Only Live Twice, published 26 March 1964 — the last Fleming Bond novel published in his lifetime; Fleming died in August 1964.

Roger Moore made his debut as James Bond in Live and Let Die (1973).

Richard Kiel played Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker.

The Lotus Esprit S1 turns into a submarine in The Spy Who Loved Me; the submarine car was nicknamed 'Wet Nellie'.

Monty Norman is credited as composer of the original 'James Bond Theme'; John Barry arranged it for Dr. No (courts, including the 2001 libel action, ruled for Norman).

Raoul Silva's birth name is Tiago Rodriguez. Note: some references spell the surname "Rodrigues" (the Portuguese spelling used in Wikipedia's character article); "Rodriguez" is the widely used film-dialogue spelling, so the sample answer stands as written.

Desmond Llewelyn played Q in 17 Eon Bond films between 1963 and 1999 (the exceptions in that span were Dr. No in 1962 and Live and Let Die in 1973, in which Q did not appear).

Bond plays Texas hold 'em poker against Le Chiffre in Casino Royale (2006); in Fleming's novel the game was baccarat.

Le Chiffre weeps blood from his damaged left eye (haemolacria, caused by a derangement of the tear duct).

Christopher Walken played Max Zorin in A View to a Kill (1985).

Honor Blackman played Pussy Galore in Goldfinger (1964).

Duran Duran performed the A View to a Kill theme; it reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 (13 July 1985), the only Bond theme to do so.

Much of Bond's mission in Octopussy takes place in India — he follows Kamal Khan to his palace in Rajasthan and most of the film was shot in Udaipur, India.

Ian Fleming served in British Naval Intelligence during the Second World War, rising to commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR).

A class-four grenade disguised as a Parker Jotter pen — three clicks arm its four-second fuse, and another three clicks disarm it.

GoldenEye is a Soviet-era satellite weapon that fires a devastating electromagnetic pulse (EMP) over its target, destroying electronic circuits.

Famke Janssen played Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye (1995).

Gustav Graves is revealed to be North Korean Colonel Tan-Sun Moon, who apparently died in the pre-title hovercraft chase and changed his appearance with gene therapy.

Gladys Knight sang the Licence to Kill theme song.

Bond's vendetta follows the maiming of his friend Felix Leiter (lowered into a shark tank, losing a leg) and the murder of Leiter's new bride Della by drug lord Franz Sanchez's men.

Jack Lord was the first actor to play Felix Leiter in the Eon film series, introduced in Dr. No (1962). (Note: Michael Pate had played a renamed "Clarence Leiter" in the 1954 TV adaptation of Casino Royale, but the question scopes to Dr. No.)

For Your Eyes Only (1960) is a collection of five short stories — "From a View to a Kill", "For Your Eyes Only", "Quantum of Solace", "Risico" and "The Hildebrand Rarity" — Fleming's first Bond short-story collection (and the only one published in his lifetime).

In the film Moonraker, Hugo Drax plans to wipe out humanity with nerve gas (derived from a black orchid) released from his space station, then repopulate Earth with hand-picked, genetically perfect young men and women.

Martin Campbell directed both GoldenEye (1995) and Casino Royale (2006) — launching Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig respectively as Bond.

Léa Seydoux plays Dr Madeleine Swann in both Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).

Shirley Bassey — Diamonds Are Forever (1971) was her second Bond theme, after Goldfinger (1964) and before Moonraker (1979); she is the only artist to have sung three official Bond themes.

Irma Bunt, Blofeld's henchwoman, in a drive-by shooting on Bond and Tracy's wedding day — Blofeld drives the car while Bunt fires the machine gun.

Switzerland — specifically the Canton de Vaud, per the obituary in Fleming's You Only Live Twice.

Fettes College in Edinburgh — his father's old school, per the obituary in You Only Live Twice (Chapter 21).

The King's Road — Bond's flat is in a plane-tree'd square off the King's Road, Chelsea (described in Moonraker).

Olivia Mansfield — her name appears on the tag of the box of bequeathed items Bond receives after her death ("From the Estate of Olivia Mansfield Bequeathed to James Bond").

Eve — Eve Moneypenny (played by Naomie Harris); she introduces herself as "Moneypenny. Eve Moneypenny." Note: Fleming himself never gave Moneypenny a first name in the novels.

Franz Oberhauser — in the Craig continuity he was born Franz Oberhauser, son of Hannes Oberhauser, and later took his mother's maiden name, Blofeld.

A DNA-targeted nanobot bioweapon that can be programmed to kill specific individuals — and, after Obruchev's modification, their blood relatives as well.

Robert Davi.

11 — From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, The Man with the Golden Gun, Moonraker, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, and The Living Daylights (1987). Note: Barry only arranged (did not compose) the Dr. No theme, which is credited to Monty Norman.

Three — Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker, a record for one singer.

Sean Connery, returning to the role 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever.

David Niven.

Major Boothroyd — but with an important qualification: Q never appears as a character in Fleming's novels (Q Branch is only mentioned). Major Boothroyd is the MI6 armourer in the novel Dr. No, named after real firearms expert Geoffrey Boothroyd; the films merged the armourer into Q, and Q is referred to as Major Boothroyd in dialogue in The Spy Who Loved Me. The sample's premise ("Q's real name in Fleming's books") is therefore imprecise — Boothroyd is the armourer, not "Q", in the books.

Sam Mendes.

1959 — published 23 March 1959 by Jonathan Cape in the UK.

Atlantis — Stromberg's submersible base off the coast of Sardinia, which can operate above and below the surface.

Charles Gray — who had previously played Bond ally Dikko Henderson in You Only Live Twice.

Chess — Kronsteen is SPECTRE's chief planner (No. 5) and a Czechoslovak chess grandmaster; the film opens with him winning a match.

Goldfinger — Auric Goldfinger's plan, Operation Grand Slam, is to detonate an atomic device inside Fort Knox to irradiate the US gold reserve and raise the value of his own gold.

"Death to Spies" — from the Russian "Smert' shpionam" (Fleming's own spelling of the transliteration varied across novels, e.g. "Smyert Shpionam" in Casino Royale, "Smiert Spionam" in From Russia with Love).

Piz Gloria, in the Swiss Alps — Blofeld's ostensible allergy research clinic (the Institut für physiologische Forschung), filmed at the Schilthorn revolving restaurant in the Bernese Oberland.

Jill St. John — the first American actress to play a Bond girl.

Vic Flick, of the John Barry Seven — he played the twanging riff on a 1939 Clifford Essex Paragon Deluxe guitar for the 1962 Dr. No recording (theme written by Monty Norman, arranged by John Barry).

Glencoe — per the fictional obituary in Fleming's You Only Live Twice: "Andrew Bond of Glencoe".

Barry Nelson, who played Bond as an American agent, "Jimmy Bond", in the 1954 live CBS *Climax!* adaptation of *Casino Royale*.

1908 — Ian Lancaster Fleming was born on 28 May 1908 in Mayfair, London.

A Bentley — most famously his battleship-grey, supercharged 1930 4½ Litre ("Blower" Bentley) in the early books, before later Bentleys replaced it.

The Walther PPK (7.65 mm), recommended by the armourer Major Boothroyd. Note for editors: the dialogue names the PPK, although the prop actually used on screen was a larger Walther PP — the answer as written matches what the film orders.

Number 1 — the head of SPECTRE. Note for editors: this is the standard, film-established title; in the *Thunderball* novel SPECTRE numbers rotated monthly, so Blofeld was Number 2 at that point in the book — the trivia answer "Number 1" remains the commonly accepted one.

Oracabessa, on Jamaica's north coast — the estate sits on Oracabessa Bay, where Fleming bought land in 1946 and built his house.

The octopus associated with Major Dexter Smythe — strictly, a wild octopus he had tamed and fed (his "pet" octopus), which gives the story its title.

Tom Jones, who sang the title song "Thunderball" (music by John Barry, lyrics by Don Black) for the 1965 film.

Bond's childhood home — the Skyfall Lodge estate in the Scottish Highlands, his ancestral family home.

*The Man with the Golden Gun*, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 1 April 1965, eight months after Fleming's death on 12 August 1964.