49 Fun Facts About James Bond Trivia for Seniors

Which US president listed From Russia, with Love among his ten favourite books in Life magazine?

John F. Kennedy's endorsement led Bond's producers to choose From Russia with Love as the follow-up to Dr. No.

Sean Connery was born in which city?

Edinburgh-born Connery took up bodybuilding, and entering a contest led him into stage work, including a small part in the musical South Pacific.

Ursula Andress made her famous white-bikini entrance from the sea in Dr. No playing which shell-diving Bond girl?

Honey Ryder's lines weren't spoken by Ursula Andress: her heavy accent led to her voice being dubbed by German-born actress Nikki van der Zyl.

Which US agency does Bond's American friend Felix Leiter work for?

Felix Leiter works for the CIA, and when a drug lord has him maimed in Licence to Kill, Bond goes rogue to avenge his friend.

In From Russia with Love, Bond is sent to help a Soviet clerk defect in which city?

Bond is sent to Istanbul to help a Soviet cipher clerk defect with a Lektor decoder; the famous fight with Red Grant then takes place aboard the Orient Express.

In the 1964 Bond film, Jill Masterson dies covered head to toe in what?

Gold paint can't really kill by 'skin suffocation': in 2003, MythBusters coated one of its hosts head to toe in it and busted the myth.

Goldfinger's plan involves breaking into which US gold depository?

Goldfinger targets Fort Knox, the US Bullion Depository in Kentucky; in the film he plans to irradiate its gold with an atomic device rather than steal it, making his own hoard more valuable.

Which actress, famous as Cathy Gale in The Avengers, played Pussy Galore in Goldfinger?

Honor Blackman's martial arts training from playing Cathy Gale helped win her the part of Pussy Galore, Goldfinger's personal pilot.

Which toy company's die-cast model of Bond's Aston Martin DB5 became a 1960s best-seller?

Corgi made its 1965 DB5 model gold rather than the film car's silver, because a silver model looked unfinished.

Oddjob's deadly weapon is what everyday item?

Oddjob's steel-rimmed bowler hat beheads a stone statue when he throws it, and he was played by Olympic silver-medal weightlifter Harold Sakata.

Which singer sang the title song of the Bond film Goldfinger?

Shirley Bassey re-recorded Goldfinger 50 years later, for her 2014 album Hello Like Before.

Which singer recorded the title song for the 1965 Bond film Thunderball?

Tom Jones got Thunderball because the producers wanted the film's title in its song, so John Barry quickly wrote it with Don Black instead of Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

You Only Live Twice sends Bond to which country after American and Soviet spacecraft vanish during the Cold War?

Japan hosts the aerial battle of Little Nellie, the autogyro flown in the film by its own inventor, Wing Commander Ken Wallis.

Whose daughter sang the theme to You Only Live Twice?

Frank Sinatra's daughter Nancy made two versions of the song: one for the film and a different one released as a single.

George Lazenby's only Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, is the one in which Bond does what?

Bond gets married to Tracy di Vicenzo, but as they leave for their honeymoon, a hail of bullets meant for him kills her.

Before On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diana Rigg played which heroine in The Avengers?

Emma Peel brought Diana Rigg international fame, yet she had to hold out for a pay rise before making more episodes.

Which jazz great sang 'We Have All the Time in the World' for On Her Majesty's Secret Service?

Louis Armstrong's recording failed to chart in 1969, then reached number three in Britain in 1994 after a Guinness advert used it.

Diamonds Are Forever, Connery's 1971 return, was set largely in which American city?

Las Vegas is where Blofeld secretly impersonates reclusive tycoon Willard Whyte, a plot that came to producer Cubby Broccoli in a dream.

Before playing Bond, Roger Moore starred for seven years as Simon Templar in which British TV series?

The Saint ran from 1962 to 1969, and Moore's first Bond film, Live and Let Die, went on to outgross Connery's Diamonds Are Forever.

In Live and Let Die, Bond faces a drug lord based in which New York neighborhood?

Harlem is Mr. Big's base, and for the film's crocodile escape, crocodile-farm owner Ross Kananga did Bond's jump himself, taking five attempts.

Which former Beatle wrote and sang the theme to Live and Let Die?

Paul McCartney wrote it, yet producer Harry Saltzman at first wanted another singer, such as Thelma Houston, to perform it instead of Wings.

Which horror star played the assassin Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun?

Christopher Lee had been asked by his step-cousin Ian Fleming to play Dr. No, but by the time Fleming told the producers, Joseph Wiseman was cast.

In The Spy Who Loved Me, Bond teams up with a Soviet agent played by Barbara Bach; what is her name?

Anya Amasova went to Barbara Bach after United Artists executive Danton Rissner pushed for her, and Broccoli gave her the lead.

Which car turns into a submarine in The Spy Who Loved Me?

The Lotus Esprit S1 turns into a submarine, and the underwater prop car, nicknamed 'Wet Nellie', was bought at auction by Elon Musk in 2013.

At the start of The Spy Who Loved Me, Bond skis off a cliff and opens a parachute showing what?

The Union Jack parachute jump, filmed on Baffin Island by stuntman Rick Sylvester, was inspired by a Canadian Club whisky advert.

Which towering henchman appears in two Bond films with Roger Moore?

Jaws even survived being dropped into a shark tank, and in his second film he fell for a girl named Dolly and switched to Bond's side.

Moonraker sent Bond into outer space partly because of the success of which film?

The end credits of The Spy Who Loved Me promised For Your Eyes Only, but after Star Wars (1977) the producers chose Moonraker to ride the science-fiction craze.

Which Scottish singer performed the theme to For Your Eyes Only in 1981?

Sheena Easton sang Bill Conti's title song, which the producers chose over a rejected For Your Eyes Only written by Blondie.

Octopussy opens with a dying agent, dressed as a circus clown, clutching a fake version of what?

The dying agent 009 is clutching a fake Fabergé egg; MI6 sends Bond to the London auction of the real one, which leads him to India and Maud Adams' Octopussy.

Which actor played Max Zorin, the 1985 villain who wants to destroy Silicon Valley?

Christopher Walken's Max Zorin also rigs horse races, secretly implanting devices in his racehorses to dope them.

Which 1983 Sean Connery Bond film, made outside the Eon series, remade Thunderball?

Never Say Never Again got made because Kevin McClory had won the screen rights to Thunderball's story in a 1963 settlement.

Which actor played 'Sir James Bond' in the 1967 spoof version of Casino Royale?

David Niven's Casino Royale was a spoof because the producer who owned the book's film rights didn't want to compete with Eon's series.

Which actor played M, Bond's boss, in the first eleven Eon films?

Bernard Lee played M from Dr. No to Moonraker, and after his death in 1981 the producers cast Robert Brown as M in Octopussy.

Which character did Desmond Llewelyn play in 17 Bond films?

Q went to Desmond Llewelyn because Peter Burton, who played the armourer Major Boothroyd in Dr. No, was unavailable for From Russia with Love.

Lois Maxwell played which character in the first 14 Bond films?

Miss Moneypenny's Lois Maxwell hoped to be promoted to M, and Roger Moore said missing out on the part was a great disappointment to her.

Bond famously orders his vodka martini prepared how?

Shaken, not stirred was also how Ian Fleming liked his own martinis; his biographer Andrew Lycett believed Fleming thought stirring spoiled the flavour.

Which pistol replaces Bond's Beretta in Dr. No?

Walther PPK owes much of its fame to Bond, and Smith & Wesson later marketed it as 'the pistol that helped make James Bond famous'.

Bond author Ian Fleming named his hero after a real American expert on what?

Birds were the real James Bond's field: Fleming knew his guide Birds of the West Indies and borrowed the name because it sounded so plain.

Ian Fleming served in which arm of the British secret world during the Second World War?

Naval Intelligence made Fleming personal assistant to its director, Admiral John Godfrey, who is thought to be a model for M.

Which children's story did James Bond author Ian Fleming also write?

Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang began as a bedtime story that Ian Fleming told his son.

Which piece of music did Monty Norman compose for the 007 films?

The James Bond Theme is Monty Norman's, and he won libel damages from The Sunday Times after it printed John Barry's claim to have written it.

Which 1980s TV detective series made Pierce Brosnan a star long before he played Bond in GoldenEye?

Remington Steele cost Pierce Brosnan his first shot at Bond: offered the role in 1986, he was held to his contract when NBC renewed the show.

Which Dame took over as M in GoldenEye and played her through Skyfall?

Judi Dench became the first female M in GoldenEye, and her M dies in Skyfall, her seventh Bond film.

Which singer's 'GoldenEye' theme was written by Bono and the Edge of U2?

Tina Turner sang GoldenEye, a title taken from Goldeneye, Ian Fleming's Jamaican home, where he wrote the Bond novels.

Which actor turned down James Bond as too young, then finally played 007 in The Living Daylights?

Timothy Dalton was approached once more around 1980 and turned it down, before accepting the part in 1986.

Which Duran Duran song, a Bond theme, topped the US charts in 1985?

A View to a Kill came about, the story goes, after bassist John Taylor drunkenly approached Cubby Broccoli at a party about writing a Bond theme.

Bond's Vesper cocktail is made with gin, vodka and which aperitif?

Kina Lillet is the aperitif in the Vesper, which Bond names after Vesper Lynd in the 1953 novel Casino Royale; the quinine-bitter original was replaced by Lillet Blanc in 1986.

Which actor took over as Bond in 2006's Casino Royale?

Daniel Craig was derided at first by some who said he was too short and lacked the dark hair Ian Fleming gave Bond.

Adele said the first draft of her Oscar-winning 'Skyfall' theme was written in how long?

10 minutes was only the first draft: Adele said the finished Skyfall took two studio sessions to record.