Directors
Though Broccoli and Wilson ultimately made the final call, this actor was Martin Campbell’s preferred choice for the new Bond in Casino Royale
Who is Henry Cavill?
While strangling Bond in an antique torture chair, Elektra reveals she had maimed herself in this manner following her kidnapping
What is severing her own ear?
What Bond finds on Ferrara’s body outside the ice skating rink in For Your Eyes Only
What is a white dove pin?
Bond is seen passing through the JFK and MSY airports in this film
What is Live and Let Die?
After wiping out on his bobsled in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Bond orders this breed of canine to never mind the resuscitation and go and get the brandy
What is a St. Bernard?
Cubby Broccoli’s 1958 World War II picture No Time to Die was helmed by this future Bond director
Who is Terence Young?
In William Boyd’s Solo, the rebel soldier Kobus Breed has double shrapnel wounds beneath his permanently weeping left eye that remind Bond of this vowel accent mark commonly used in German and Hungarian writing
What is an umlaut?
In Thunderball, the manner in which Paula Caplan dies at Palmyra
What is she takes her own cyanide pill?
The origin of Max Denbigh’s single-letter moniker may remain something of a mystery, but this is what the “C” stands for in SPECTRE
What is Counter-intelligence?
Portrayed by two Beaucerons in the film, Drax’s hounds were defined as this breed in Christopher Wood’s novelization, James Bond and Moonraker
What are Doberman Pinschers?
Esteemed French director Robert Bresson said of this John Glen-directed Bond film: “It filled me with wonder because of its cinematographic writing. If I could have seen it twice in a row and again the next day, I would have done.”
What is For Your Eyes Only?
In Fleming’s Diamonds Are Forever, during the cruise ship auction, Bond’s suspicions are raised when Wint begins to do this
What is suck the wart on his thumb?
Message Bond finds scribbled on a balloon floating near Saunders after he’s crushed by a café sliding door in The Living Daylights / Bonus: In Quantum of Solace, the lone word Fields writes on a note she leaves Bond at the front desk
What is “Smiert Spionam?” / Bonus: What is “Run?”
Acronymal name of the pipeline cleansing device with which Bond smuggles Georgi Koskov to the West in The Living Daylights
What is P.I.G.?
In Tomorrow Never Dies, Elliot Carver refers to Michael G. Wilson and his other media execs as these canines
What are his golden retrievers?
Of his Bond film’s score, this director said, “The music is not up to the rest of the film and it hurts the film.”
Who is Irvin Kershner?
Two of the four cinematic Bond baddies with facial scars known to have been caused by explosions
Who are Alec Trevelyan, Zao, Mollaka, or Ernst Stavro Blofeld?
Name of the Russian security officer who is killed alongside Ali Kerim Bey in what is meant to look like a fight to the death
Who is Benz?
Stuntman BJ Worth made 80 jumps from a plane to film Tomorrow Never Dies’ H.A.L.O. jump—an acronym that stands for this military parachuting maneuver
What is high altitude, low opening?
This ceramic manufacturing company makes the Union Jack-draped bulldog that survives the attack on M’s office in Skyfall
What is Royal Doulton?
Alfred Hitchcock told Guy Hamilton that this was his favorite part of Goldfinger
What is the little old lady gatekeeper machine-gunning Bond in his Aston Martin?
Chemical compound Silva bites through in Skyfall that dissolves the skeletal structure of the left half of his face—and presumably bleaches his hair a stylish blonde too
What is hydrogen cyanide?
With respect to Jill Masterson’s death by gold paint, Bond notes cabaret dancers paint themselves without fear of suffocation so long as they leave a patch of skin to breathe on this part of the body
What is the base of the spine?
Bond confronts a terrorist army operating under an acronymal title that stands for “Children Of the Last Days” in a novel by this continuation author
Who is John Gardner?
Upon their meeting in a Soviet statue graveyard in GoldenEye, Alec Trevelyan mocks Bond’s undying patriotism by calling him this very specific type of canine
What is “her Majesty’s loyal terrier?”