Quiz A Matter of Life and (especially) Death: Another Bond Quiz

[R1s1ngs0n]

Difficulty: moderate / 20 Questions

Only one possible answer for each question and answers are to be sent to me via PM.

Winner will be announced in this thread by end of next week and all those who participate will be guaranteed a spot in a special Bond-themed giveaway that will be announced when we launch the Dr. No GB 😀

 

 

 

All the Bond pre-title sequences feature at least one character dying, except one. Name that movie.

You Only Live Twice

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Moonraker

Goldeneye

Quantum Of Solace

 

Which of the following characters does not die by electrocution?

Capungo in Goldfinger

Oddjob in Goldfinger

SPECTRE #9 in Thunderball

Dr. Tynan in Diamonds Are Forever (stung by a scorpion slipped into his shirt)

Helicopter pilot in For Your Eyes Only

 

Which of the following villains is the only one killed by Bond?

Auric Goldfinger

Emilio Largo

Hugo Drax (Bond shoots him with a cyanide-tipped dart and then ejects him into space)

Le Chiffre

Dominic Greene

 

Deadly animals are a staple of the Bond franchise and have been featured in quite a few of them.
Which of the following movies does not feature any of these lethal creatures?

You Only Live Twice (piranhas)

Moonraker (Dobermans)

Licence To Kill (shark, electric eels)

Die Another Day

Skyfall (Komodo dragon)

 

The following movies feature deaths of at least two members of the same family, except one. Name that movie.

Goldfinger (Jill & Tilly Masterson)

Thunderball (François Derval dies, Domino Derval lives)

Octopussy (Mischka & Grischka)

Tomorrow Never Dies (Elliot & Paris Carver)

Casino Royale (Alex & Solange Dimitrios)

 

Which of the following baddies does not die as a result of a long fall?

Sandor in The Spy Who Loved Me

Émile Locque in For Your Eyes Only

Max Zorin in A View To A Kill

Alec Trevelyan in Goldeneye (crushed to death by a collapsing antena after surviving a ridiculouslly long fall)

Patrice in Skyfall

 

Which of the following movies has Bond's lowest kill count?

Dr. No

Live And Let Die

The Man With The Golden Gun (Scaramanga is Bond's only kill in the whole movie)

A View To A Kill

The Living Daylights

 

Which of the following hench(wo)men is fought by Bond after the death of the main villain?

Red Grant

Oddjob

Tee Hee

Gobinda

Xenia Onatopp

 

Which of the following characters does not die by fire?

Quarrel in Dr. No

Morzeny in From Russia With Love

Mr. Kidd in Diamonds Are Forever

Franz Sanchez in Licence To Kill

Primo in No Time To Die (killed by prosthetic eye explosion)

 

Which of the following Bond allies makes it through alive?

Kerim Bey (killed by Grant)

Tiger Tanaka

Vijay (killed by yo-yo thug)

Sir Godfrey Tibbett (killed by May Day)

Saunders (killed by Necros)

 

Name the odd one out.

Tracy 

Andrea

Lisl

Lupe (only lady who doesn't die)

Vesper

 

Which of the following characters does not die by gunshot?

Fiona Volpe in Thunderball

Grunther in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (impaled by wall spikes)

Karl Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me

Elektra King in The World Is Not Enough

Lyutsifer Safin in No Time To Die

 

'Smiert Spionam' (Death to Spies) is a sinister motto that is introduced in which movie?

From Russia With Love

For Your Eyes Only

The Living Daylights

Tomorrow Never Dies

Casino Royale

 

Which of the following movies has the highest kill count?

You Only Live Twice

Moonraker

A View To A Kill

Goldeneye

Quantum Of Solace

 

Which of the following characters isn't killed by a knife stab/throw?

Henderson in You Only Live Twice

Aris Kristatos in For Your Eyes Only

009 in Octopussy

Sharkey in Licence To Kill (his actual death isn't shown but most likely shot to death of had his throat slit)

Raul Silva in Skyfall

 

Which of the following ladies was given a 'nice honeymooooon' ?

Plenty O'Toole

Della Leiter

Paris Carver

Solange Dimitrios

Lucia Sciarra

 

Another trope heavily featured in the Bond films is the incompetent hench(wo)man being disposed off by his less-than-understanding employer. 

Which of the following characters was 'spared' this fate?

Professor Dent (shot by Bond)

Count Lippe (dies in car explosion caused by rockets fired from Fiona Volpe's motorcycle)

Quist (fed to Largo's sharks)

Helga Brandt (fed to Blofeld's piranhas)

Mr. Osato (shot by Blofeld)

 

Which of these iconic henchmen had the highest kill count?

Red Grant (7)

Oddjob (4)

Mr. Wint & Mr. Kidd (4)

Nick Nack (0)

Jaws (2 in TSWLM, 0 in MR)

 

Which of the following characters does not die by poisoning?

Mr. Jones in Dr. No

Kronsteen in From Russia With Love

Paula Kaplan in Thunderball

Aki in You Only Live Twice

Max Kalba in The Spy Who Loved Me (killed by steel-toothed Jaws)

 

Which of the following movies does not feature a funeral?

Thunderball (Jacques Bouvar's fake funeral)

You Only Live Twice (Bond's fake funeral at sea)

For Your Eyes Only (Bond visits Tracy's grave but no funerals take place)

The World Is Not Enough (Sir Robert King's funeral)

Spectre (Marco Sciarra's funeral)

 

 

 

Edited December 17, 2023 by R1s1ngs0n

[R1s1ngs0n]

@cypheria078 thank you for being, as usual, a loyal participant in these quizzes.

Despite your claim to the contrary, you did very well on this one, achieving a mighty fine score of 13/20

 

@extantsrevenge @Gary K @hansreinhardt @Manticore4 @Boilersteel @Scary Hair @JackFoley007

Edited December 5, 2023 by R1s1ngs0n

[cypheria078]

1 minute ago, R1s1ngs0n said:

@cypheria078 thank you for being, as usual, a loyal participant in these quizzes.

Despite your claim to the contrary, you did very well on this one, achieving a mighty fine score of 13/20

 

 

 

Thank you for this very hard nice quiz 😜

[R1s1ngs0n]

Our second contestant @Gary K has just submitted his answers, totaling a score of 9/20

[R1s1ngs0n]

Thank you @Noir21 for your participation. You and @Gary K are now tied with a score of 9/20

[extantsrevenge]

@R1s1ngs0n 😃

 

If I don't get a high score

 

But

 

😆

[R1s1ngs0n]

@extantsrevenge I've examined your answers very carefully 

 

Double and triple checked for any slip on your part

 

But alas, it was another flawless performance

 

A perfect 20 out of 20 for our resident squirrel 😀

 

[extantsrevenge]

 

Awesome news 🤩, finally, last time I certainly had to many errors, but now

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you @R1s1ngs0n for this very entertaining quiz 🙏

[cypheria078]

3 hours ago, R1s1ngs0n said:

@extantsrevenge I've examined your answers very carefully 

 

Double and triple checked for any slip on your part

 

But alas, it was another flawless performance

 

A perfect 20 out of 20 for our resident squirrel 😀

 

 

[Noir21]

6 hours ago, R1s1ngs0n said:

@extantsrevenge I've examined your answers very carefully 

 

Double and triple checked for any slip on your part

 

But alas, it was another flawless performance

 

A perfect 20 out of 20 for our resident squirrel 😀

 

 

[extantsrevenge]

It looks like new villains have appeared in the Bond universe 😲

 

15 hours ago, cypheria078 said:

 

 

12 hours ago, Noir21 said:

 

 

😜

[Boilersteel]

Finally able to submit my answers.  Guessed on all of them.  Don't know the characters well enough to remember all the names so that part was extremely difficult.  Super impressed with @extantsrevenge for your perfect score 👏!!!  Just hoping I get at least 1 correct. 🙏 😅

[R1s1ngs0n]

@Boilersteel

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You achieved a most respectable score of 12/20

[R1s1ngs0n]

Another welcome submission from the honorable @hansreinhardt who ended up with a score of 007/20

[hansreinhardt]

On 12/10/2023 at 9:48 PM, Boilersteel said:

Don't know the characters well enough to remember all the names so that part was extremely difficult.

 

This was my problem too, @Boilersteel!

 

8 minutes ago, R1s1ngs0n said:

Another welcome submission from the honorable @hansreinhardt who ended up with a score of 007/20

 

Thanks for another fun quiz, @R1s1ngs0n! I definitely had a tough time on this one, and I even recently rewatched Dr. No thru TMWTGG

[R1s1ngs0n]

@cypheria078 @Gary K @Noir21 @extantsrevenge @Boilersteel @hansreinhardt

Thank you gentlemen for participating in this quiz. I highlighted the correct answers in the OP and marked you all for the upcoming giveaway draw that will be held as soon as the Dr. No GB is launched (when that will happen I still don't know).