Q 01/05

What do the letters MI stand for in the name MI6?

A) Military Intelligence

B) Ministry of Information

C) Maritime Intelligence

D) Ministerial Investigations

Answer · why

A) Military Intelligence

Military Intelligence. MI6 was adopted as a flag of convenience at the start of the Second World War and stuck in the press, though the service has ca...

Q 02/05

What kind of work is MI6 primarily responsible for?

A) Military police work

B) Foreign espionage overseas

C) Signals interception

D) Domestic security

Answer · why

B) Foreign espionage overseas

Foreign espionage overseas. By law MI6 may act only against people outside the British Islands, so catching foreign spies at home falls to a sister se...

Q 03/05

Bond's boss is M, but which letter names the real MI6 chief?

A) K

B) Q

C) C

D) X

Answer · why

C) C

C. It began as the initial of the first chief, Mansfield Cumming, and every successor has inherited it as a title, so that today it is said to stand f...

Q 04/05

To which cabinet minister is the chief of MI6 directly accountable?

A) Prime Minister

B) Foreign Secretary

C) Defence Secretary

D) Home Secretary

Answer · why

B) Foreign Secretary

Foreign Secretary. That minister appoints the chief of MI6, though by law the chief may also report straight to the Prime Minister at any time.

Q 05/05

MI6's forerunner bureau was founded in 1909 amid a public panic about what?

A) German spies

B) Russian anarchists

C) Irish bombers

D) French saboteurs

Answer · why

A) German spies

German spies. Most were figments of press and popular imagination, yet the Committee of Imperial Defence took the stories seriously enough to found th...