Sean Connery Trivia
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47 free Sean Connery trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
This Sean Connery trivia quiz covers the whole of a remarkable life. It starts in Edinburgh: the milk round for St Cuthbert's Co-op, the Royal Navy tattoos, the coffin polishing and artist's modelling, the bodybuilding contest that led to South Pacific, the football contract Matt Busby dangled, and the gangsters he knocked out on a dance-hall balcony. Then come the Bond years: how Dana Broccoli and Terence Young shaped the role, Ian Fleming's change of heart, the shark that got through the Plexiglas on Thunderball, and the return he swore would never happen. The second half looks at the actor beyond 007: Hitchcock's Marnie and Lumet's The Hill, The Man Who Would Be King with Michael Caine, the scarlet mankini of Zardoz, the Oscar for The Untouchables, Henry Jones Sr., Draco the dragon, the roles he turned down in The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, and the film that drove him into retirement. There are also questions on his SNP politics, the knighthood, his golf and the Bahamas. Difficulty runs from easy to expert and is shown on every question. Every answer was checked against a reference page and each question carries its citation. Try our James Bond and Scotland quizzes next.
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Q 01In which city was Sean Connery born in 1930?
Edinburgh
He grew up at 176 Fountainbridge and was known as Tommy, and later 'Big Tam', before adopting his middle name.
Q 02What was Connery's first job?
Milkman
Milkman: he left school at 13 and went to work full time for the local dairy.
Q 03Which two tattoos did Connery acquire in the Royal Navy?
'Mum and Dad' and 'Scotland Forever'
'Mum and Dad' and 'Scotland Forever': he got them in the navy, which discharged him at 19 with a duodenal ulcer.
Q 04In which Spanish resort did Connery and his wife Micheline live for more than two decades?
Marbella
Marbella: after they sold their villa there, Spanish authorities opened a tax-fraud investigation into the sale.
Q 05Connery learned about auditions for South Pacific while competing in what?
A bodybuilding contest
A bodybuilding contest: he had entered Mr. Universe, though accounts differ on how he placed, and joined South Pacific's London chorus.
Q 06Which actor replaced Connery as James Bond in 1969?
George Lazenby
George Lazenby: Eon offered him a multi-film contract, but he left the role after just one film.
Q 07Which gangster pulled a gun on Connery on the 1958 set of Another Time, Another Place and got flattened?
Johnny Stompanato
Johnny Stompanato: Lana Turner's gangster boyfriend was then quietly put out of the country by Scotland Yard.
Q 08In which 1959 Disney film about leprechauns did Connery have a leading role?
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
The New York Times dismissed him as 'merely tall, dark, and handsome'.
Q 09Which Shakespeare character did Connery play in the BBC's 1960 series An Age of Kings?
Hotspur
Hotspur: he was still little known then, two years before James Bond made him a star.
Q 10Counting his non-Eon comeback, Connery played Bond seven times, as often as which other actor?
Roger Moore
Roger Moore: he had wanted to leave the role, but was enticed back for Octopussy.
Q 11Which was Connery's first Bond film?
Dr. No
After it opened in 1962 he received thousands of fan letters a week and 'Bond... James Bond' entered the language.
Q 12Which producer's wife is credited with persuading her husband that Connery was the right man for Bond?
Dana Broccoli
Ian Fleming initially grumbled that he was 'an overgrown stunt-man' but changed his mind after the Dr. No premiere.
Q 13From which Highland village did Ian Fleming, impressed by Connery, give Bond a Scottish father in You Only Live Twice?
Glencoe
Glencoe: Connery's screen Bond also led Fleming to give the character more humour and a more relaxed manner.
Q 21In The Man Who Would Be King (1975), two ex-soldiers set themselves up as kings where?
Kafiristan
Kafiristan: Afghanistan's ruler conquered the region in 1896 and renamed it Nuristan.
Q 22In which 1974 John Boorman sci-fi film did Connery wear a scarlet mankini?
Zardoz
Zardoz: Boorman said Connery had just stopped playing Bond and wasn't getting any jobs, so he took the part.
Q 23The Time Bandits script that joked about casting Connery as Agamemnon was co-written by Terry Gilliam and which Python?
Michael Palin
Michael Palin: their script joked that the king would be Sean Connery, 'or an actor of equal but cheaper stature'.
Q 14Which director 'took Sean under his wing', teaching him how to walk, talk and even eat as Bond?
Terence Young
Moneypenny actress Lois Maxwell recalled the tutoring; Young had already directed Connery in Action of the Tiger in 1957.
Q 15During Thunderball, which creature breached a Plexiglas partition and forced Connery out of Largo's pool?
A shark
A shark: the Plexiglas barrier Connery had demanded was not fixed, so when a shark got through he fled the pool.
Q 16Which was the only Bond film Connery made outside Eon, released in 1983?
Never Say Never Again
Never Say Never Again: the title nods to his earlier vow never to play Bond again.
Q 17Which future action star broke Connery's wrist while choreographing fights on his 1983 Bond comeback?
Steven Seagal
The troubled production soured him on the studios and he made no films for two years.
Q 18Told Cary Grant never asked for scripts, how did Connery reply before Marnie?
'I'm not Cary Grant'
'I'm not Cary Grant': worried about being typecast as a spy, he did not want to make a variation of North by Northwest.
Q 19Which Sidney Lumet film of 1965 was the first of five Connery made with the director?
The Hill
Peter Bradshaw calls it and Marnie his two great non-Bond pictures of the 1960s; it won Best Screenplay at Cannes.
Q 20Connery's 1967 documentary covered a shipyard industrial-relations experiment in which city?
Glasgow
Glasgow: the Fairfield experiment was the brainchild of industrialist Sir Iain Stewart, one of Connery's golfing friends.
Q 24In the film Goldfinger, what does the villain threaten Connery's strapped-down Bond with?
An industrial laser
An industrial laser: in Ian Fleming's novel, Goldfinger threatens Bond with a circular saw instead.
Q 25For which 1986 film did Connery win the BAFTA for Best Actor?
The Name of the Rose
The same year, Highlander showed he could play older mentor to a young lead, a role he repeated for years.
Q 26For which film did Connery win his Academy Award?
The Untouchables
The Untouchables: yet an Empire magazine poll later named his Scottish accent in it the worst in film.
Q 27Who played Al Capone opposite Connery in 1987?
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro: Bob Hoskins had been lined up as a backup in case De Niro couldn't take the part.
Q 28What was the first name of Connery's character, Indiana's father, in The Last Crusade?
Henry
Henry: the film reveals Indy is really Henry Jones Jr., who took the name Indiana from the family dog.
Q 29Connery voiced Draco, a dragon, in which 1996 film?
Dragonheart
Dragonheart: animators worked from sheets of Connery's faces in his earlier films, so the dragon would emote like him.
Q 30Which king did Connery play in a brief cameo at the end of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves?
Richard the Lionheart
Richard the Lionheart: fifteen years earlier he had played Robin Hood himself, opposite Audrey Hepburn in Robin and Marian.