50 Fun Facts About James Bond Trivia for Seniors

Dr. No, the first James Bond film, was released in which year?

Sean Connery starred, and he went on to make six Eon films, returning after a one-film absence for Diamonds Are Forever in 1971.

Sean Connery was born in which city?

His first job was as a milkman there, and he grew up at 176 Fountainbridge.

Ursula Andress made her famous entrance from the sea in Dr. No playing which character?

Honey is a shell diver whom Bond meets on Crab Key; the Swiss actress's white bikini became an icon.

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

Leiter appears in Dr. No, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Diamonds Are Forever and many later films.

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

The film's famous train fight with Red Grant takes place aboard the Orient Express.

In Goldfinger, Jill Masterson dies after being covered head to toe in what?

Actress Shirley Eaton's gold-painted image made the cover of Life magazine.

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

He intends to irradiate the gold with a dirty bomb rather than steal it, so his own gold becomes more valuable.

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

Pussy Galore is Goldfinger's personal pilot and flies the captive Bond to his Kentucky stud farm.

Which toy company's model of Bond's Aston Martin DB5 was the biggest-selling toy of 1964?

The DB5 made its first Bond appearance in Goldfinger, complete with ejector seat.

Oddjob's deadly weapon is what everyday item?

Its brim is razor-edged, and he throws it with lethal accuracy; wrestler Harold Sakata played him.

Which Welsh singer sang the theme to Goldfinger?

She also sang Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker, the only artist to sing more than one official Bond theme.

Which singer, per Bond legend, fainted holding the final note of the Thunderball theme?

John Barry wrote it with lyricist Don Black for the 1965 film.

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

The film features Blofeld's volcano lair and the tiny autogyro Little Nellie.

Whose daughter sang the theme to You Only Live Twice?

Nancy Sinatra took the song after her father passed on it, and admitted she was terrified in the studio.

Blofeld was famously introduced on screen without showing his face, only his hands stroking what?

Donald Pleasence was the first to show Blofeld's face, in You Only Live Twice.

George Lazenby made just one Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, in which Bond does what?

He weds Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo, played by Diana Rigg, and she is killed within minutes of the ceremony.

Diana Rigg was cast as Bond's bride after playing which famous heroine in The Avengers?

Brigitte Bardot had been approached first but signed to make Shalako with Sean Connery instead.

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

John Barry wrote it with Hal David; it was one of Armstrong's last recordings.

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

Billionaire Willard Whyte's casino hotel is a stand-in for Howard Hughes' empire.

Before playing Bond, Roger Moore starred as Simon Templar in which TV series?

He played the character from 1962 to 1969, then made seven Bond films, the most of any Eon actor.

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

Mr. Big's world of gangsters and voodoo also takes Bond to New Orleans and the Caribbean.

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

He co-wrote it with his wife Linda and it was produced by Beatles producer George Martin.

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

He was Ian Fleming's step-cousin, and Scaramanga is identified by his golden gun and a third nipple.

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

Bach later married Ringo Starr; the villain Stromberg wants to build a civilisation under the sea.

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

The underwater prop, nicknamed 'Wet Nellie', was bought by Elon Musk in 2013.

Carly Simon's 'Nobody Does It Better' was the theme to which Bond film?

Marvin Hamlisch composed it, and it was the first Bond theme not to share the film's title since Dr. No.

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

Richard Kiel played him; test audiences liked him so much the shark was rewritten to let him survive.

Moonraker sent Bond into outer space partly because of the success of which 1977 film?

The producers had planned For Your Eyes Only next but jumped on the science-fiction craze and NASA's shuttle tests.

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

She had earlier topped the US charts with 'Morning Train (Nine to Five)', and the Bond song was Oscar-nominated.

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

MI6 sends Bond to the London auction of the real egg, which leads him to India and Maud Adams' Octopussy.

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

Grace Jones played his bodyguard May Day, and Duran Duran's theme hit number one in the US.

Sean Connery returned to Bond one last time in 1983 in a film not made by Eon; what was it called?

It was a remake of Thunderball, made possible by producer Kevin McClory's rights to that story.

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

The all-star comedy had five credited directors and nothing to do with Eon's series.

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

A painting of him hangs in MI6's Scottish headquarters in The World Is Not Enough as a tribute.

Desmond Llewelyn played which gadget-supplying character in 17 Bond films?

He appeared opposite the first five Bonds and handed over to John Cleese's R in his final film.

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

The Canadian actress played M's secretary from Dr. No in 1962 to A View to a Kill in 1985.

Bond famously orders his vodka martini prepared how?

In the films the phrase is first said by the villain Dr. No, offering Bond a drink; Bond himself first says it in Goldfinger.

What pistol has Bond carried since Dr. No, replacing his Beretta?

Fleming made the switch in the novel Dr. No on the advice of a firearms expert, Geoffrey Boothroyd.

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

Fleming owned the ornithologist's field guide Birds of the West Indies and liked how plain the name was.

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

He was assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence and helped plan Operation Goldeneye, later the name of his Jamaican home.

Which flying-car children's story did Ian Fleming also write?

Published in 1964, the year he died at 56, it became a 1968 film with Dick Van Dyke.

Which piece of music, played over the gun barrel opening, was composed by Monty Norman?

John Barry arranged it for Dr. No and went on to score eleven Bond films.

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

He first saw a Bond film, Goldfinger, at age 11 and finally took the role in 1995.

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

She replaced Robert Brown after the six-year gap between Licence to Kill and GoldenEye.

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

The producers signed her first, and the U2 pair agreed to write the song once she was on board.

Which two actors played Bond only briefly, with two films and one film respectively?

Dalton was cast in August 1986 and said of Licence to Kill, 'My feeling is this will be the last one'.

Which Duran Duran Bond theme is the only one ever to top the US charts?

It reached number two in Britain, held off by Paul Hardcastle's '19'.

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

Bond names the drink after Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale, and the aperitif itself stopped being made in 1986.

Which actor took over as Bond in 2006's Casino Royale, the first blond 007?

Craig made five films through No Time to Die in 2021 and remains the latest Eon Bond.

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

Fine-tuning it then took 18 months, and it became the first Bond theme ever to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song.