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178 free James Bond trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free James Bond trivia questions with answers. Are you a true James Bond fan? Challenge yourself with our ultimate 178-question trivia quiz covering decades of 007 films, legendary actors, memorable villains, and iconic gadgets. From Sean Connery to Daniel Craig, this quiz tests your knowledge of the world's most famous spy franchise.
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Q 01Which Goldfinger henchman kills with a steel-rimmed bowler hat?
Oddjob
Oddjob actor Harold Sakata was badly burned filming his electrocution death scene, but he kept holding the hat until the director called cut.
Q 02Which singer held the last note of Thunderball's theme so long that the room was spinning?
Tom Jones
Tom Jones got the song only after the original theme was dropped for not containing the film's title.
Q 03Which band sang the theme song for The Living Daylights?
A-ha
A-ha and composer John Barry worked together so badly that two versions exist: his mix on the soundtrack and theirs on a 1988 album.
Q 04Piz Gloria, the mountaintop restaurant filmed as Blofeld's lair, stands in which country?
Switzerland
Switzerland's Piz Gloria was still half-built when the filmmakers found it, so they helped pay to finish it in return for exclusive use.
Q 05Which actress portrayed M in several James Bond films, including 'Skyfall'?
Judi Dench
Judi Dench's M was modelled on Stella Rimington, the real spy chief who became the first woman to run MI5.
Q 06Which US president named a Fleming novel among his ten favourite books, sparking a Bond boom in America?
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy picked From Russia, with Love for a 1961 Life magazine list, and the sales surge made Fleming America's biggest-selling crime writer.
Q 07Which sport does Bond play against Auric Goldfinger, who tries to cheat him?
Golf
Bond wins at golf by tricking the cheating Goldfinger into playing the wrong ball on the last hole, with a bar of Nazi gold as bait.
Q 08Which singer recorded the theme songs for three James Bond films?
Shirley Bassey
Shirley Bassey's first Bond theme became the only US top-40 hit of her long career, peaking at No. 8 in 1965.
Q 09Which pop star sang a Bond theme and appeared in the same film as a fencing instructor?
Madonna
Madonna's cameo as fencing coach Verity won her a Golden Raspberry for Worst Supporting Actress.
Q 10Which director helmed both the James Bond films 'Skyfall' and 'Spectre'?
Sam Mendes
Sam Mendes had directed Daniel Craig in Road to Perdition, and Skyfall went on to gross more than $1 billion worldwide.
Q 11Which band's debut single came out the day Dr No premiered?
The Beatles
The Beatles released Love Me Do on 5 October 1962, the same day Dr No premiered at the London Pavilion.
Q 12In Moonraker, which billionaire industrialist, whose company builds space shuttles for NASA, plans to wipe out humanity and repopulate Earth from orbit?
Hugo Drax
Hugo Drax owns Drax Industries, the firm building NASA's shuttles, and means to gas humanity from his space station before repopulating Earth with his chosen few.
Q 13Which Bond film ends with a battle inside the volcano base where Blofeld hides a spaceship-snatching rocket?
You Only Live Twice
Q 21Which letter is the code name of the MI6 officer who supplies Bond's gadgets?
Q
Q stands for quartermaster, and Desmond Llewelyn, who played him in 17 films, had been a prisoner of war at Colditz Castle.
Q 22Which drink is James Bond famous for ordering shaken rather than stirred?
Vodka Martini
On screen, Bond's vodka martini catchphrase is first spoken by the villain in Dr No; Bond only says it himself in Goldfinger, ordering just 'a martini'.
Q 23Which actress played Pussy Galore, leader of the all-female Flying Circus pilots?
Honor Blackman
Honor Blackman already threw villains with judo as Cathy Gale in The Avengers, and Pussy Galore flips Bond with judo too.
You Only Live Twice ends in Blofeld's volcano base, a Ken Adam set where SPECTRE is hired by a great power to start a Soviet-American war.
Q 14Which actor played James Bond only once in the Eon Productions series?
George Lazenby
George Lazenby quit after one film because his agent convinced him the secret agent would seem archaic in the liberated 1970s.
Q 15What is the name of the CIA agent who is often an ally to James Bond?
Felix Leiter
Felix Leiter is fed to a shark in one of Fleming's novels and survives, with a note pinned to him: 'He disagreed with something that ate him.'
Q 16Who sang the theme song for the Bond film Skyfall?
Adele
Adele's Skyfall became the first Bond theme to win the Oscar for Best Original Song, a prize every earlier Bond song had missed.
Q 17Which actress played Tracy di Vicenzo, the countess who marries James Bond?
Diana Rigg
Brigitte Bardot was approached first but chose the western Shalako instead, so Diana Rigg, fresh from playing Emma Peel in The Avengers, took the part.
Q 18Which villain runs the heroin operation in the 1973 Bond film set in Harlem and on the island of San Monique?
Dr. Kananga
Dr. Kananga doubles as the Harlem drug lord Mr. Big, whose plan is to give away two tons of heroin for free to bankrupt his rivals and corner the market.
Q 19What is the nationality of the actor Pierce Brosnan, who played James Bond?
Irish
Irish-born Pierce Brosnan was offered Bond in 1986, but NBC renewed Remington Steele and held him to his contract.
Q 20Which James Bond film features an invisible car gadget?
Die Another Day
Die Another Day, the twentieth Eon Bond film, gave 007 an invisible Aston Martin V12 Vanquish for Brosnan's 2002 farewell.
Q 24Which actor is known for playing the henchman Jaws in 'The Spy Who Loved Me' and 'Moonraker'?
Richard Kiel
Richard Kiel said Jaws's steel teeth were so painful that he could keep them in only briefly at a time.
Q 25Which Bond villain, a reclusive shipping tycoon, plans nuclear war and a new civilisation under the sea?
Karl Stromberg
Karl Stromberg plans to fire stolen submarines' nuclear missiles at Moscow and New York, then ride out the war in his undersea base, Atlantis.
Q 26After Bernard Lee died in 1981, which actor took over as M starting with 'Octopussy'?
Robert Brown
Robert Brown had played Admiral Hargreaves in an earlier Bond film, and Bond scholars think his M is that admiral, promoted.
Q 27In 'Casino Royale' (2006), what game does James Bond play against Le Chiffre?
Poker
Bond and Le Chiffre play Texas hold 'em poker, replacing the baccarat of Fleming's original 1953 novel.
Q 28Where does the opening sequence of the Bond film Spectre take place?
Mexico City
Mexico City had no real Day of the Dead parade until 2016, when authorities staged one inspired by the film's opening.
Q 29Which pop artist performed the theme song for 'No Time to Die'?
Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish was still a teenager when she recorded it, making her the youngest artist ever to sing a Bond theme.
Q 30Which pet does Blofeld stroke while his face stays hidden in the early Bond films?
A white cat
A white cat: Blofeld's Persian was so iconic that Austin Powers spoofed it with Dr. Evil's cat, Mr. Bigglesworth.