Q 01/05

Which circus skill did Pierce Brosnan pick up at a London theatre workshop before he trained as an actor?

A) Sword swallowing

B) Knife throwing

C) Fire eating

D) Tightrope walking

Answer · why

C) 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 ...

Q 02/05

In which Robin Williams film does Pierce Brosnan play Stu, the smooth new boyfriend of the hero's ex-wife?

A) Mrs. Doubtfire

B) Good Will Hunting

C) Patch Adams

D) The Birdcage

Answer · why

A) 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 chok...

Q 03/05

Which horror author sued to have his name taken off Pierce Brosnan's virtual-reality thriller The Lawnmower Man?

A) Dean Koontz

B) Stephen King

C) Clive Barker

D) Peter Straub

Answer · why

B) 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 04/05

In which film did Pierce Brosnan first play James Bond, driving a tank through the streets of St Petersburg?

A) Licence to Kill

B) Tomorrow Never Dies

C) The Living Daylights

D) GoldenEye

Answer · why

D) 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 05/05

Which actor became James Bond in 1987 after a television contract forced Pierce Brosnan to give up the role?

A) Timothy Dalton

B) Roger Moore

C) Sam Neill

D) George Lazenby

Answer · why

A) 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.