The James Bond Trivia Quiz from Esquire
For you James Bond fans out there, here's a quiz to see how well you know your Bond! Pierce Brosnan took this quiz and scored a 9 out of 10 [like me]! I deleted his responses for clarity.
1. Q is also known as:
a) Major Boothroyd
Sergeant Goodchild
c) Colonel Thatcher
d) David St. Hubbins
2. Which of the following films is not part of the official James Bond series?
a) Dr. No
The Man with the Golden Gun
c) Die Another Day (forthcoming)
d) Never Say Never Again
3. What was George Lazenby doing for a living before he was tapped for his first and only Bond picture, On Her Majesty's Secret Service?
a) He was a model.
He sold pencils.
c) He was a newscaster for the BBC.
d) He worked for Bond producer Albert Broccoli.
4. Which of the following Bond girls did Bond never bed?
a) Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman in Goldfinger)
Plenty O'Toole (Lana Wood in Diamonds Are Forever)
c) May Day (Grace Jones in
A View to a Kill)
d) Natalya Fyodorovna
Simonova (Izabella Scorupco in GoldenEye)
5. Below are passages from two speeches. One was given by M in The World Is Not Enough (1999), the other by George W. Bush on September 13, 2001. Which is which?
a) "This will not stand. We will not be terrorized by cowards. . . . We will find the people who committed this atrocity. We'll follow them to the farthest end of the earth if needs be. And we will bring them to justice."
"Justice demands that those who helped or harbored the terrorists be punished--and punished severely. The enormity of their evil demands it. We will . . . pursue those responsible for this evil until justice is done."
6. In which Bond movie was the objective of the villain's plot not global domination but simply to kill Bond?
a) GoldenEye
You Only Live Twice
c) From Russia with Love
d) Live and Let Die
7. Ian Fleming took the name "James Bond" from an author/-ologist. What kind of -ologist was he?
a) An eschatologist (death, judgment, and the afterlife)
An ophiologist (snakes)
c) An ornithologist (birds)
d) A volcanologist (volcanoes)
8. In which Bond movie is Stockholm syndrome--the tendency of the kidnapped to become emotionally attached to his or her captors--a major plot device?
a) Moonraker
Octopussy
c) The Living Daylights
d) The World Is Not Enough
**BONUS ROUND**
Bond or Powers? The last two questions are lines from either a James Bond movie or an Austin Powers movie.
9. "I think you're a sexist, misogynist dinosaur."
a) M (Judi Dench) to James Bond in GoldenEye.
Vanessa Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley) to Austin Powers in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
10. "My father was a relentless-ly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet."
a) Dr. Evil, summarizing his parents in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
Karl Stromberg, the shipping magnate in The Spy Who Loved Me, explaining how he came to have webbed hands.
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The Answers
1. Answer: a.
2. Answer: d.
3. Answer: a.
4. Answer: b.
5. Answer: a is M; b is Bush.
6. Answer: c.
7. Answer: c.
8. Answer: d.
9. Answer: a.
10. Answer: a.
For an online and e-mailable version of this quiz, go to esquire.com. Link