Famous Spies
Spy Gear & Gadgets
Cold War Espionage
Spy Movies
Code Names & Agencies
100

This British Spy prefers his martinis "shaken, not stirred"

Who is James Bond?

100

Classic hidden place to conceal messages or weapons in a spy film. Often found in an office.

What is the false bottom of a desk drawer?

100

This wall symbolized the division between East and West during the Cold War.

What is the Berlin Wall?

100

A long-running film franchise features Agent 007.

What is James Bond?

100

The U.S. foreign intelligence service

What is the CIA?

200

This WWII British woman spy worked with the French Resistance and was nicknamed the "White Mouse."

Who is Nancy Wake?

200

This everyday item was used to conceal a hidden microphone in many Cold War operations.

What is a pen?

200

This CIA operation used a fake movie production to rescue Americans from Iran in 1980.

What is Operation Argo?

200

This Tom Cruise film series is based on a 1960s TV show.

What is Mission: Impossible?

200

The UK's Secret Intelligence Service, often known by this two-letter acronym.

What is MI6?

300

This American double agent passed secrets to the Soviets and was exposed in the 1990s.

Who is Aldrich Ames?

300

A gadget-filled car brand famously driven by James Bond.

What is an Aston Martin?

300

The U-2 spy plane incident involved the U.S. and this country.

What is the Soviet Union?

300

The 2014 film "Kingsman: The Secret Service" is based on this medium.

What is a comic book (or graphic novel)?

300

The Soviet Union's main security agency during the Cold War.

What is the KGB?

400

The protagonist of John le Carré’s novels, he's a quiet and cerebral intelligence officer.

Who is George Smiley?

400

This compact device could deliver a lethal dose of poison via umbrella tip—used in 1978.

What is the Bulgarian umbrella?

400

This Soviet defector revealed a network of spies operating in the U.S. and Canada.

Who is Igor Gouzenko?

400

This 2012 spy thriller stars Daniel Craig and features the fall of MI6.

What is Skyfall?

400

Operation this was the code name for the D-Day invasion in WWII.

What is Operation Overlord?

500

This Cold War-era KGB agent later became President of Russia.

Who is Vladimir Putin?

500

These small, button-sized devices were used to transmit radio signals covertly in WWII.

What are micro transmitters (or wireless bugs)?

500

Nicknamed the "Cambridge Five," this group spied for the Soviets from inside this country.

What is the United Kingdom?

500

This 2011 film directed by Tomas Alfredson stars Gary Oldman as George Smiley.

What is Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy?

500

The NSA's surveillance program exposed by Edward Snowden was known as this.

What is PRISM?

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