50 Fun Facts About James Bond Trivia for Seniors

Dr. No, the first James Bond film, was released in which year?

Dr. No premiered in London in October 1962; Sean Connery starred and made six Eon Bond films, returning after a one-film absence for Diamonds Are Forever in 1971.

Sean Connery was born in which city?

Connery was born in 1930 in Edinburgh's Fountainbridge district, where his first job was delivering milk for the St Cuthbert's Co-operative.

Ursula Andress made her famous white-bikini entrance from the sea in Dr. No playing which shell-diving Bond girl?

Honey Ryder is a shell diver Bond meets on Crab Key, and the Swiss actress's white bikini became an icon of the series.

Which US agency does Bond's American friend Felix Leiter work for?

Felix Leiter is a CIA officer, Bond's American counterpart; he appears in Dr. No, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Diamonds Are Forever and many later films.

In From Russia with Love, Bond is sent to help a Soviet clerk defect in which city?

Bond is sent to Istanbul to help a Soviet cipher clerk defect with a Lektor decoder; the famous fight with Red Grant then takes place aboard the Orient Express.

In the 1964 Bond film, Jill Masterson dies covered head to toe in what?

Actress Shirley Eaton's gold-painted image made the cover of Life magazine.

Goldfinger's plan involves breaking into which US gold depository?

Goldfinger targets Fort Knox, the US Bullion Depository in Kentucky; in the film he plans to irradiate its gold with an atomic device rather than steal it, making his own hoard more valuable.

Which actress, famous as Cathy Gale in The Avengers, played Pussy Galore in Goldfinger?

Honor Blackman, fresh from playing Cathy Gale in The Avengers, played Pussy Galore, Goldfinger's personal pilot who flies the captive Bond to his Kentucky stud farm.

Which toy company's die-cast model of Bond's Aston Martin DB5 became a 1960s best-seller?

Corgi Toys released its die-cast DB5, complete with working ejector seat, in 1965 and sold millions of them; the real car debuted in Goldfinger.

Oddjob's deadly weapon is what everyday item?

Oddjob's steel-brimmed bowler hat can behead a statue when thrown; Olympic weightlifter turned wrestler Harold Sakata played him.

Which Welsh singer sang the theme to Goldfinger?

Shirley Bassey, from Cardiff's Tiger Bay, also sang Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker, making her the only artist with more than one official Bond title theme.

Which singer, per Bond legend, fainted holding the final note of the Thunderball theme?

Tom Jones has said he held the last note of Thunderball until the studio spun and he blacked out; John Barry wrote it with lyricist Don Black for the 1965 film.

You Only Live Twice sends Bond to which country after American and Soviet spacecraft vanish during the Cold War?

Japan hosts Blofeld's volcano lair and the tiny autogyro Little Nellie, while each superpower blames the other for the vanishing capsules.

Whose daughter sang the theme to You Only Live Twice?

Nancy Sinatra took the song after her father passed on it, and admitted she was terrified in the studio.

Blofeld was famously introduced on screen without showing his face, only his hands stroking what?

Blofeld's white Persian cat sat on his lap in From Russia with Love and Thunderball while his face stayed hidden; Donald Pleasence first showed it in You Only Live Twice.

George Lazenby's only Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, is the one in which Bond does what?

Bond gets married to Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo, played by Diana Rigg, and she is killed within minutes of the ceremony.

Diana Rigg was cast as Bond's bride after playing which famous heroine in The Avengers?

Diana Rigg played Emma Peel in The Avengers from 1965 to 1968; Brigitte Bardot had been approached for Tracy first but made Shalako with Sean Connery instead.

Which jazz great sang 'We Have All the Time in the World' for On Her Majesty's Secret Service?

John Barry wrote it with Hal David; it was one of Armstrong's last recordings.

Diamonds Are Forever, Connery's 1971 return, was set largely in which American city?

Diamonds Are Forever is set largely in Las Vegas, where reclusive billionaire Willard Whyte's casino hotel, the Whyte House, stands in for Howard Hughes' empire.

Before playing Bond, Roger Moore starred for seven years as Simon Templar in which British TV series?

The Saint ran from 1962 to 1969 with Moore as Templar; he then made seven Bond films, the most of any Eon actor.

In Live and Let Die, Bond faces a drug lord based in which New York neighborhood?

Mr. Big runs his empire from Harlem, behind the Fillet of Soul restaurant; the trail also takes Bond to New Orleans and the Caribbean island of San Monique.

Which former Beatle wrote and sang the theme to Live and Let Die?

Paul McCartney wrote Live and Let Die with his wife Linda and recorded it with Wings; Beatles producer George Martin produced it and scored the film.

Which horror star played the assassin Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun?

Christopher Lee, a step-cousin of Ian Fleming, played Scaramanga, whose trademarks are a golden gun and a third nipple.

In The Spy Who Loved Me, Bond teams up with a Soviet agent played by Barbara Bach; what is her name?

Barbara Bach, who played Anya Amasova, later married Ringo Starr. The villain Stromberg wants to build a civilisation under the sea.

Which car turns into a submarine in The Spy Who Loved Me?

The Lotus Esprit S1 drives off a pier and becomes a submarine; the underwater prop, nicknamed 'Wet Nellie', was bought at auction by Elon Musk in 2013.

Carly Simon's 'Nobody Does It Better' was the theme to which Bond film?

Nobody Does It Better opened The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977; Marvin Hamlisch composed it, and it was the first Bond theme song titled differently from its film.

Which towering henchman with steel teeth appears in two Bond films with Roger Moore?

Richard Kiel played him; test audiences liked him so much the shark was rewritten to let him survive.

Moonraker sent Bond into outer space partly because of the success of which 1977 film?

The end credits of The Spy Who Loved Me promised For Your Eyes Only, but after Star Wars (1977) the producers chose Moonraker to ride the science-fiction craze.

Which Scottish singer performed the theme to For Your Eyes Only in 1981?

Sheena Easton, from Bellshill near Glasgow, sang For Your Eyes Only and appeared on screen in its title sequence; the song was Oscar-nominated.

Octopussy opens with a dying agent, dressed as a circus clown, clutching a fake version of what?

The dying agent 009 is clutching a fake Fabergé egg; MI6 sends Bond to the London auction of the real one, which leads him to India and Maud Adams' Octopussy.

Which actor played Max Zorin, the 1985 villain who wants to destroy Silicon Valley?

Christopher Walken, an Oscar winner for The Deer Hunter, played Max Zorin, a microchip tycoon out to flood Silicon Valley; Grace Jones was his bodyguard May Day.

Sean Connery's 1983 return as Bond, made outside the Eon series, was a remake of Thunderball called what?

Never Say Never Again was possible because producer Kevin McClory held rights to the Thunderball story; the other non-Eon Bond film is the 1967 spoof Casino Royale.

Which actor played 'Sir James Bond' in the 1967 spoof version of Casino Royale?

David Niven, whom Fleming himself had once suggested for the role, played the retired Sir James Bond; the all-star comedy had five credited directors and nothing to do with Eon's series.

Which actor played M, Bond's boss, in the first eleven Eon films?

Bernard Lee played M from Dr. No to Moonraker; after his death in 1981 the role passed to Robert Brown, and a portrait of Lee hangs in MI6's Scottish base in The World Is Not Enough.

Desmond Llewelyn played which gadget-supplying character in 17 Bond films?

Desmond Llewelyn played Q, the quartermaster, in 17 films from From Russia with Love to The World Is Not Enough, opposite the first five Bonds, before handing over to John Cleese.

Lois Maxwell played which character in the first 14 Bond films?

The Canadian actress played Miss Moneypenny, M's secretary, in every Eon film from Dr. No in 1962 to A View to a Kill in 1985.

Bond famously orders his vodka martini prepared how?

'Shaken, not stirred' is first said on screen by the villain Dr. No, offering Bond a drink; Bond himself first says it in Goldfinger.

What pistol has Bond carried since Dr. No, replacing his Beretta?

Fleming switched Bond to the Walther PPK in the novel Dr. No on the advice of firearms expert Geoffrey Boothroyd, and the gun's fame followed Bond's.

Bond author Ian Fleming named his hero after a real American expert on what?

Fleming owned the ornithologist's field guide Birds of the West Indies and liked how plain the name was.

Ian Fleming served in which arm of the British secret world during the Second World War?

He was assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence and helped plan Operation Goldeneye, later the name of his Jamaican home.

Which flying-car children's story did Ian Fleming also write?

Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang came out in 1964, the year Fleming died at 56, and became a 1968 film with Dick Van Dyke.

Which piece of music, played over the gun barrel opening, was composed by Monty Norman?

Monty Norman wrote the James Bond Theme, which John Barry arranged for Dr. No; Barry went on to score eleven Bond films of his own.

Which 1980s TV detective series made Pierce Brosnan a star long before he played Bond in GoldenEye?

Pierce Brosnan played Remington Steele from 1982 to 1987; the show's revival cost him the Bond role in 1986, and he finally took it in GoldenEye in 1995.

Which Dame took over as M in GoldenEye and played her through Skyfall?

Judi Dench took over as M in GoldenEye (1995) after the six-year gap since Licence to Kill, replacing Robert Brown, and played M through Skyfall.

Which singer's 'GoldenEye' theme was written by Bono and the Edge of U2?

Tina Turner sang GoldenEye in 1995; the producers signed her first, and Bono and the Edge agreed to write the song once she was on board.

Which pair of actors had the shortest Eon Bond runs, with two films and one film respectively?

Timothy Dalton and George Lazenby: Dalton was cast in August 1986 and said of Licence to Kill, 'My feeling is this will be the last one'.

Which Duran Duran song, a Bond theme, topped the US charts in 1985?

A View to a Kill topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in July 1985; in Britain it reached number two, held off by Paul Hardcastle's '19'.

Bond's Vesper cocktail is made with gin, vodka and which aperitif?

Kina Lillet is the aperitif in the Vesper, which Bond names after Vesper Lynd in the 1953 novel Casino Royale; the quinine-bitter original was replaced by Lillet Blanc in 1986.

Which actor took over as Bond in 2006's Casino Royale, the first blond 007?

Daniel Craig, the first blond Bond, made five films from Casino Royale in 2006 to No Time to Die in 2021.

Adele said the first draft of her Oscar-winning 'Skyfall' theme was written in how long?

Adele and Paul Epworth drafted Skyfall in about 10 minutes, she said, then spent 18 months refining it; it became the first Bond theme to win the Oscar for Best Original Song.