Some James Bond questions for Festivus – by Ike
The investigation of an assassin using one of these devices forms the basis for the short story “From a View to a
Kill.” Robbin Young won a Playboy contest to appear in a cameo in a scene in which Bond kills another assassin
using one of these devices while in Cortina. Bond comments about “all those feathers” and how “he still couldn’t
fly” after another assassin uses a warhead attached to one of these devices in The Spy Who Loved Me. One of the
more ridiculous chase sequences in the franchise involves three policemen using these vehicles to chase after Bond
on a double-decker in Live and Let Die. For 10 points, name these vehicles, one of which is used by Bond and Wai
Lin as they try to dodge Carver’s men in Hong Kong.
ANSWER: motorcycles
Ian Fleming wrote a story set in this city in which Bond warns Solange that her boyfriend is a KGB agent. A
henchman in this city states that for twenty bucks, he’d take Bond to a certain type of cookout. While at a shop in
this city, Bond asks the storekeeper to wrap his purchase lengthwise so that he can investigate a car. One character
in this city tells Bond that “names are for tombstones, baby” before Bond is nearly “wasted.” Felix Leiter asks for
the make of a “white pimpmobile” after Bond is nearly killed in a car crash in this city, which is home to the “Oh
Cult Voodoo Shop.” For 10 points, name this city in which Bond meets Mr. Big for the first time, in its
neighborhood of Harlem.
ANSWER: New York City
An action sequence that takes place in one of these establishments is based around Marc Forster’s vision of featuring
the four classical elements of earth, fire, air and water. The entirety of Ian Fleming’s novel The Spy Who Loved Me
is set at one of these places. At another of these places, Bond is attacked after talking about listening to the Beatles
without earmuffs. At yet another of these places, Bond states “We’re teachers on sabbatical and we’ve just won the
lottery.” General Medrano dies at one of these places after signing a deal to give Dominic Greene a monopoly on
water in Bolivia. It is at one of these places where Bond catches Goldfinger cheating at canasta. For 10 points, name
this type of building that features into many Bond movies.
ANSWER: hotels or motels
In the game Goldeneye, the possession of one of these weapons changes the slapper-weapon animation to that of
hitting them with this thing’s stock. After using one of these weapons, Bond retorts “As you said, such good sport”
to the man that gave it to him. That usage of this sort of weapon occurs immediately before Corinne Dufour’s
employment is terminated and she is eaten by hounds. A Portuguese dude named Lazar made one of these weapons
for an assassin with only three fingers, which Bond threatens to use in a scene from The Man with the Golden Gun.
For 10 points, name this kind of weapon, which Bond uses to scare “the living daylights” out of Kara Milovy as
Koskov "defects."
ANSWER: (sniper) rifles [prompt on gun]
In this real-life country, James Bond uses a device that sucks up mosquitoes to avert the West Nile Virus attack at
G8. In addition to appearing in that Raymond Benson novel, Bond meets Australian Alura McCall after he escapes a
skyscraper in this country in the game Nightfire. A villainous businessman in this country likes to add a sparkle to
his day by drinking a glass of Dom Perignon in the morning, and he believes “in a healthy chest,” which is why he
doesn’t smoke. That villain is served by Helga Brandt, who is eaten by piranhas after she fails to eliminate Bond,
who comes to this country and uses the code phrase “I love you.” Q brings four suitcases to assemble Little Nellie in
this country, where Bond is assisted by Tiger Tanaka. For 10 points, name this setting of You Only Live Twice.
ANSWER: Japan
This man’s place of business forms the basis of the two “City of Walkways” levels in one video game. One of his
henchman, “Mr. Bullion,” tries to blow him and Bond up while in an FSB station in Istanbul. Several years before
he appears on screen, Bond shoots him in the leg and “takes his girl,” which leads him to try to shoot Bond while he
is at his nightclub. Bond almost foils his plan to make a payoff at a casino by having him bury the top 3 cards of a
deck shoe. He dies while looking for his cousin Nikolai, who owns a big, black submarine – but he shoots a manacle
so that he can escape from Elektra King. For 10 points, name this gangster from Goldeneye and The World is Not
Enough.
ANSWER: Valentin Zukovsky
One subplot in this movie was inspired by the only James Bond story to be set in the Seychelles, titled “The
Hildebrand Rarity.” A henchman in this movie complains about an “80-million dollar write-off” before being killed
by his boss, who states “I guess it’s time to start cutting overhead.” Gadgets in this movie include manta ray
camouflage and an alarm clock that is guaranteed to never wake you up. In a gruesome scene, Milton Krest has his
head explode in a decompression chamber after Bond frames him for stealing money. Its climax takes place on four
lorries filled with dissolved cocaine. For 10 points, name this movie in which Bond avenges the mutilation of Felix
Leiter.
ANSWER: License to Kill
One of these figures was played by a jazz musician who was cast after Harry Saltzman saw him perform a piece by
Thelonious Monk. After Bond is saved from one of their machinations, Bond is told “You dirty, double-crossin
limey fink!” In another scene, after Bond is told “you press L for lobby,” he passes out and these figures state “If at
first you don’t succeed … try, try, again.” Responsible for killing a nice old lady named Mrs. Whistler in
Amsterdam and using a scorpion to kill a dentist, they are foiled when Bond recognizes their aftershave; Bond then
shish-kabobs one of them and ties a bomb from a cake to the other. For 10 points, name this pair of gay assassins
from Diamonds are Forever.
ANSWER: Wint and Kidd
This gadget is held by Bond in R.’s lab in Die Another Day, as the camera also shows the crocodile disguise from
Octopussy in the background. At the end of one novel, Ian Fleming tried to kill off James Bond by having him
succumb to this weapon, only for Mathis to arrive and save Bond as we learn in the next novel, Dr. No. This device
is used against the protagonist while at a hotel in Venice, where its user is disguised as a maid and is fended off from
using it by a chair that Bond uses. After Tatiana Romanova shoots this device’s user, Bond quips “She’s had her
kicks.” For 10 points, name this gadget used by Rosa Klebb in From Russia with Love.
ANSWER: Rosa Klebb’s shoe’s with spikes.
Description acceptable. In his book Lives of the Novelists, John Sutherland claims that this sequence is a nod to Ian
Fleming’s sexuality. In Fleming’s novel, it happens in the chapters “The Crawling of the Skin” and “My Dear Boy.”
Shortly after this sequence, a woman confesses to Bond “I can’t resist waking you. Every time I do, you look at me
as if you haven’t seen me in years.” It leads to the incorrect arrest of Rene Mathis. During this sequence, Bond states
“Now the whole world’s gonna know that you died scratching my balls.” For 10 points, name this rather gruesome
sequence in which Le Chiffre tries to get his poker money back from James Bond.
ANSWER: James Bond being tortured in Casino Royale
One character of this profession will have a hundred bucks a month deducted out of his paycheck to pay for a
crushed vehicle; another character of this profession tells Bond sarcastically “And I’m Dick Tracy” before he is
sprayed down with pressurized water; that character of this profession rear-ends a car while distracted by a blimp. A
more notable person of this profession compares a reckless driver to “a regular Ben-Hur” and tells his wife Maybelle
that “we’re Democrats” when she wants to buy an elephant statue in Thailand. Dr. No tells Bond that he is one of
these whose luck has just ran out. For 10 points, J.W. Pepper is a comic relief character of what profession, who
patrols the bayou in Live and Let Die?
ANSWER: policemen or sheriff
The novelization of the movie in which he appears, adds in the fact that he tortured his real dad for many hours, so
that this villain was reincluded in his father's will. In a moment of frustration, he states “So much for German
efficiency!” One person on this character’s payroll states his new software is “full of bugs, which means people will
be forced to upgrade for years.” He states “It seems you have you’ve outlived your contract” before he kills his
techno-terrorist henchman Henry Gupta. He has his wife killed after she states “Tell me, James: do you still sleep
with a gun under your pillow?” For 10 points, name this villain from Tomorrow Never Dies who looks like Steve
Jobs.
ANSWER: Elliot Carver [accept either]
A significant character from this movie makes a reappearance as an ally in Raymond Benson’s Never Dream of
Dying. A minor character in this film is played by George Baker, an actor whom Ian Fleming imagined to play
James Bond, another character in this movie was played by a woman who starred in the movie The Avengers. The
villain in this movie seeks the title of Comte Balthazar de Bleuchamp and has a base at Piz Gloria. Early scenes in
this film include one in which Moneypenny alters Bond’s resignation to be a request for two weeks leave and the
hilarious line “this never happened to the other fellow.” For 10 points, name this movie in which James Bond gets
married, the only one starring George Lazenby.
ANSWER: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Description acceptable. During this “action sequence,” Bond passes a torch to a henchman to distract him so that
Bond can punch him in the face. It’s the only action sequence in the franchise in which someone tries to kill Bond
with a blunderbuss, and early on Bond dryly remarks “this should shake them off” after descending some stairs in a
“company car.” Ridiculous moments include Bond using a sword-swallower’s sword and Bond being saved from
death by his “hard currency;” actually, this entire sequence is ridiculous. It ends with Bond throwing all of his
money he won playing backgammon into the air. For 10 points, name this action sequence in which Gobinda tries to
kill Bond visits in Octopussy
ANSWER: the fight scene in New Delhi or the fight scene in India [I don’t care about fleshing out the answer line
that much since I’m the only moderator and I know when to prompt.]