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40 free Pierce Brosnan trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Pierce Brosnan spent seven years as James Bond, but the secret-agent adventures are a small part of a career that runs from British gangster drama to disaster movies, heist capers, westerns, musicals and superhero blockbusters. Few leading men have been so willing to send up their own suave image. This quiz covers the films people look for most: the Bond missions and the stars, villains, cars and theme songs that came with them, the hits he made between assignments, and the later roles as fathers, politicians, hitmen and thieves. A few questions go back to his childhood in Ireland, his training in London and the television series that made him famous. The opening questions suit anyone who has seen his best-known work. Later ones are for fans who remember the smaller parts, the directors and the co-stars. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which circus skill did Pierce Brosnan pick up at a London theatre workshop before he trained as an actor?
Fire eating
Fire eating caught his eye when he watched a performer teaching it at the Ovalhouse theatre, and he simply joined in. Three years at the Drama Centre London followed.
Q 02In which Robin Williams film does Pierce Brosnan play Stu, the smooth new boyfriend of the hero's ex-wife?
Mrs. Doubtfire
Mrs. Doubtfire has Williams's disguised nanny spike Stu's dinner with cayenne pepper, then save him with the Heimlich manoeuvre when he starts to choke.
Q 03Which horror author sued to have his name taken off Pierce Brosnan's virtual-reality thriller The Lawnmower Man?
Stephen King
Stephen King won because the film kept little of his short story beyond the title. It had been rewritten from an unrelated script called CyberGod.
Q 04In which film did Pierce Brosnan first play James Bond, driving a tank through the streets of St Petersburg?
GoldenEye
GoldenEye ended a six-year gap in the series caused by legal disputes, and its tank chase alone took around six weeks to film.
Q 05Which actor became James Bond in 1987 after a television contract forced Pierce Brosnan to give up the role?
Timothy Dalton
Timothy Dalton stepped in after news of Brosnan's casting revived his cancelled detective show, whose makers then held him to his contract.
Q 06Which hit film musical won Pierce Brosnan a Golden Raspberry for Worst Supporting Actor, thanks to his singing?
Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia! critics compared his singing to a water buffalo and a wounded raccoon. He still came back for the sequel ten years later.
Q 07Pierce Brosnan narrated an hour-long 2008 special, The Great Discovery, for which long-running children's series?
Thomas & Friends
Thomas & Friends hired him to narrate the whole series on both sides of the Atlantic, but that one special turned out to be his only work for it.
Q 08Which Sean Connery adventure was the first James Bond film Pierce Brosnan ever saw, at the age of 11?
Goldfinger
Goldfinger was a treat from his new stepfather, soon after Brosnan left Ireland to rejoin his mother in Britain.
Q 09Which car maker broke with tradition by supplying James Bond's cars for Pierce Brosnan's first three 007 films?
BMW
BMW signed a three-film deal that put Bond in a Z3 roadster, then a remote-controlled 750iL saloon and finally a Z8.
Q 10Which actress played Chinese agent Wai Lin alongside Pierce Brosnan's Bond in Tomorrow Never Dies?
Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh so impressed Brosnan with her combat skills that he called her a female James Bond. Her Oscar came decades later, for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Q 11Which 1980s NBC detective series made Pierce Brosnan a star as a former con man posing as a private eye?
Remington Steele
Remington Steele began as a name invented by detective Laura Holt, because clients would not hire a woman. Brosnan's nameless thief simply stepped into the role.
Q 12Which actress became the first woman to play M, Bond's boss, in Pierce Brosnan's debut as 007?
Judi Dench
Judi Dench outlasted Brosnan in the series, staying on as M to brief Daniel Craig's Bond from Casino Royale to Skyfall.
Q 13Which actress played NSA agent Jinx opposite Pierce Brosnan's Bond in Die Another Day?
Halle Berry
Q 21Which English actor played Alec Trevelyan, the treacherous agent 006, in Pierce Brosnan's first James Bond film?
Sean Bean
Sean Bean's villain was rewritten as Bond's equal once he was cast. The two actors met again in 2010, with Bean as Zeus in a Percy Jackson film.
Q 22Which Monty Python star took over as gadget master Q during Pierce Brosnan's run as James Bond?
John Cleese
John Cleese was first introduced as Q's assistant, jokingly called R, a letter Brosnan found hard to say in a convincing English accent.
Q 23Which rock legend sang the theme to Pierce Brosnan's first Bond film, a song written by Bono and the Edge?
Tina Turner
Halle Berry was then lined up for a spin-off film about Jinx, which the studio announced and later cancelled over its $80 million budget.
Q 14Which pop star sang the theme to Pierce Brosnan's Die Another Day and cameoed as a fencing instructor?
Madonna
Madonna's title song split the juries: it was nominated for a Golden Globe and also for a Golden Raspberry as the year's worst original song.
Q 15In which disaster film does Pierce Brosnan play a volcanologist who warns a small Washington town of an eruption?
Dante's Peak
Dante's Peak used Wallace, Idaho, as its doomed town, and one scene with a trapped scientist was shot inside the crater of Mount St. Helens.
Q 16In which heist remake does Pierce Brosnan play a bored billionaire who steals a Monet from a New York museum?
The Thomas Crown Affair
The Thomas Crown Affair swapped the 1968 original's armed bank robberies for an art theft, because its director thought audiences would not forgive a hero who robbed banks for fun.
Q 17What kind of mythical creature is Chiron, the teacher Pierce Brosnan plays in the first Percy Jackson film?
Centaur
Centaur or not, Chiron poses as a high school teacher called Mr Brunner and trains young heroes at Camp Half-Blood.
Q 18Which comedian played Pierce Brosnan's son, an Icelandic singer, in a Netflix comedy about the Eurovision Song Contest?
Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell also co-wrote the film, having been introduced to the contest in 1998 by his Swedish wife.
Q 19Which martial arts star hunts Pierce Brosnan's Belfast politician for answers in the 2017 thriller The Foreigner?
Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan plays a London restaurant owner and former soldier who wants the names of the bombers who killed his daughter.
Q 20Pierce Brosnan voiced a talking smart house called Ultrahouse in a Halloween episode of which animated series?
The Simpsons
The Simpsons writers first wanted Sean Connery as the voice of the house, which falls for Marge and plots to get rid of Homer.
Tina Turner's song saw off a rival theme written by Swedish group Ace of Base, whose record label pulled them out for fear the film would flop.
Q 24In which James Bond film does Pierce Brosnan chase an assassin by speedboat along the Thames to the Millennium Dome?
The World Is Not Enough
The World Is Not Enough took several weeks on the river to film the chase, and became the highest-grossing Bond film up to that time.
Q 25Which director cast Pierce Brosnan as Professor Donald Kessler in the alien invasion comedy Mars Attacks!?
Tim Burton
Tim Burton first wanted Hugh Grant for the professor, who ends the film as a disembodied head aboard the Martian mothership.
Q 26Which Justice Society hero did Pierce Brosnan play opposite Dwayne Johnson in the DC film Black Adam?
Doctor Fate
Doctor Fate draws his sorcery from the Helmet of Fate, and Brosnan wore a motion capture suit to play him.
Q 27Which actor played Pierce Brosnan's rebellious son, Tyler, in the 2010 New York drama Remember Me?
Robert Pattinson
Robert Pattinson's Tyler ends the film waiting in his father's office, which is revealed to be on the 101st floor of the World Trade Center's North Tower.
Q 28Which fellow Irish star pursues Pierce Brosnan across the wilderness in the 2007 revenge western Seraphim Falls?
Liam Neeson
Liam Neeson was cast first, opposite Richard Gere, and Brosnan only took the part of the hunted man when Gere dropped out.
Q 29Which actress plays Elizabeth, one of the retired amateur sleuths, opposite Pierce Brosnan in The Thursday Murder Club?
Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren's character is a retired MI6 officer, while Brosnan swaps spying for the part of Ron, a retired union leader.
Q 30Which comedy star plays an American engineer caught in a violent uprising alongside Pierce Brosnan in No Escape?
Owen Wilson
Owen Wilson's family is rescued by Brosnan's Hammond, a British traveller who turns out to be a covert operative and gives his life so they can escape.