Sean Connery Trivia

1. In which film does Sean Connery's character assist with the defection of a Soviet consulate clerk?

From Quiz Zooming in on Sean Connery

Answer: From Russia With Love

Sean Connery was the first man to bring James Bond to the big screen and, in many ways, set a high standard for his successors to follow. Numerous Bond followers and critics continue to express that Connery was the best of the Bonds. In "From Russia With Love" (1963) Bond is being set-up for a fall by the Russians as revenge for taking out their agent Dr No, the title character of the previous film, released in 1962. Tatiana Romanova, played by Daniela Bianchi, and a Lektor coding machine are the bait being used to lure Bond into the trap. Bond is armed with some gadgets but they are few and this allows Connery to act. He draws out sensitivities that are rare fodder in "Bond" films and doesn't miss a beat when he needs to revert to the brutal aspects of Bond's craft. This question was created with love from Bunbury in Western Australia by Phoenix Rising's pollucci19.

From Quiz Sean Connery - His Movies

Answer: Jimmy Malone, The Untouchables

From Quiz Quotes from Sean Connery Movies

Answer: Rising Sun

The scene for this quote takes place as Connor (Connery) explains Japanese company team culture to Web Smith (Wesley Snipes).

From Quiz Connery's Characters

Answer: Major General Roy Urquhart

This film had an all star cast, including Dirk Bogarde (Browning), James Caan, Michael Caine, Edward Fox, Gene Hackman, Ryan O'Neale (Gavin) and Anthony Hopkins (Frost). The film was directed by Richard Attenborough and based on a book by Cornelius Ryan.

From Quiz Sean Connery - His Movies

Answer: Entrapment

From Quiz Zooming in on Sean Connery

Answer: The Man Who Would Be King

Sean Connery (Daniel Dravot) joins Michael Caine (Peachy Carnehan) in this Rudyard Kipling tale of two ex British soldiers who decide to travel to Kafiristan to overthrow the present king. Invoking the bond of Freemasonry with the journalist narrator, Mr Kipling himself (Christopher Plummer), they persuade him to help them in their plan. The film, released in 1975, seems to have stood the test of time and is supposed to be one of Connery's favourite roles. In order to not upset a local sheik during filming, Sean Connery was persuaded to eat a dish of sheep's eyes. Once accomplished, the sheik was revealed to be his old friend Eric Sykes. smpdit reflects that Sir Sean Connery was one of her film heroes. "The Man Who Would Be King" was the film she chose to watch in tribute after the announcement of his death.

From Quiz Connery's Characters

Answer: John Patrick Mason

John Patrick Mason was infamous for being the only man who had ever broken out of Alcatraz. Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris also starred in this thrilling movie, released in 1996.

From Quiz Zooming in on Sean Connery

Answer: The Name of the Rose

Connery is Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, who turns into a Father Brown figure (or should that be Sherlock Holmes as he's from Baskerville) when he appears at a Northern Italian abbey for a debate on the poverty of Christ. Instead he's confronted with a murder and must call upon his powers of deduction to resolve the issue. As corpses continue to pile up, his search of the abbey uncovers fiendish friars and demented hunchbacks. Connery puts forward a cleverly understated and subtle performance, far removed from his brutal reveals as the alpha spy, James Bond. This bud of a question was pruned and nurtured by Phoenix Rising's pollucci19.

From Quiz Sean Connery - His Movies

Answer: Dragonheart

From Quiz Zooming in on Sean Connery

Answer: Goldfinger

Goldfinger (1964) featured Sean Connery in his third "James Bond" film along with title character, and evil villain, Auric Goldfinger (played by Gert Frobe). In order to increase the value of his own personal gold stock pile (Goldfinger: "I conservatively estimate, ten times."), Goldfinger arranged to irradiate the US gold reserves (estimated today at 4600 metric tons) stored at Fort Knox, Kentucky, with a Chinese-supplied bomb (Goldfinger: "I prefer to call it an 'atomic device'. It's small, but particularly dirty."). Of course, our hero gets caught, and while being threatened with death-by-laser, ("...which emits an extraordinary light not found in nature"), Bond says, "Do you expect me to talk?" to which Goldfinger responds, "No Mr. Bond. I expect you to die!" The film featured, for the first time, the famous Aston Martin DB5 (with ejector seat), the second appearance of 'Q', (Desmond Llewelyn), John Barry's beautiful music and the first of two "Bond" appearances by stars from the long-running British TV series "The Avengers" playing the role of Bond's love interest - in this case Honor Blackman as "Pussy Galore" (and later, Diana Rigg, as Contessa Teresa, more poignantly in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" - 1969). Sadly, both ladies passed away in 2020. In 2012, Blackman publicly criticized Connery for becoming a so-called "tax exile". She said "I disapprove of him strongly now. Because I don't think you should accept a title from a country and then pay absolutely no tax towards it. He wants it both ways. I don't think his principles are very high." No thinly gold-plated fan of "James Bond" movies, Phoenix Rising's mike32768 is a 24-karat enthusiast.

From Quiz Connery's Characters

Answer: Robert MacDougal

Dr. Robert Campbell was the name of Connery's character in 'Medicine Man', and in 'A Good Man in Africa' he was Alex Murray. 'Entrapment' (1999) also starred Catherine Zeta-Jones and Ving Rhames.

From Quiz Sean Connery - His Movies

Answer: First Knight

From Quiz Zooming in on Sean Connery

Answer: The Untouchables

Sean Connery never got an Oscar nomination for any of his "James Bond" movies but he won a Best Supporting Oscar for this role in 1987's "The Untouchables", where he provided the perfect foil for the more cerebral role played by Kevin Costner. Directed by Brian Palma, and therefore a very visual movie, there was no doubt that Mr Connery's role played a large part in the commercial and critical success of the movie. This question was written in a speakeasy while the author 1nn1, a proud Phoenix Rising team member, was drinking bootleg liquor.

From Quiz Connery's Characters

Answer: The Wind And The Lion

'The Wind And The Lion' was released in 1975, and also starred Candice Bergen. In 'The Next Man' Connery played Khalil Abdul-Muhsen. Moses Zebulon Carlin was Connery's character in the film 'Shalako' and in 'Rising Sun' he played Captain John Connor.

From Quiz Sean Connery - His Movies

Answer: Darby O'Gill and the Little People

From Quiz Connery's Characters

Answer: Colonel Arbuthnot

This was a very puzzling crime for Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney) to solve. The 1974 film is based on Agatha Christie's excellent novel. It tells of the mysterious death of a passenger on the famous train, and the presence of many people who had good reason for wanting that particular passenger dead. Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave and Richard Widmark also star in this superb 'Whodunnit'.

From Quiz Zooming in on Sean Connery

Answer: The Rock

"The Rock", set on Alcatraz Island, was released in 1996 and became one of the highest grossing films of that year. Ed Harris leads a team of rogue US Marines, who have set up a stronghold on Alcatraz and are threatening to bomb San Francisco with a deadly nerve gas unless the government pays them a ransom of $100 million. A team of US Navy Seals is put together and have included a chemical weapons specialist (Nicholas Cage) in their team and John Mason (Connery) a Scottish National who had been imprisoned indefinitely without charge. Mason has been included in the mission because he is the only person alive, who had successfully escaped from Alcatraz. This question was cobbled together by Phoenix Rising's jaknginger, who's only regret is that this is not a question about Sherlock Holmes so that she could say "It's sedimentary, my dear Watson".

From Quiz Connery's Characters

Answer: Sir August de Wynter

In this 1998 movie, Sean Connery is the villain, trying to rule the world with the help of a weather changing machine. John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) and Emma Peel (Uma Thurman) are the British agents who have the task of stopping him.

From Quiz Connery's Characters

Answer: Captain Marko Ramius

Connery is Marko Ramius, Sam Neill is Vasily Borodin, Scott Glenn is Bart Mancuso and Peter Firth is Red October. Alec Baldwin, James Earl Jones and Joss Ackland also star in this story of a missing submarine and the race to find it.

From Quiz Sean Connery - His Movies

Answer: Highlander

From Quiz Zooming in on Sean Connery

Answer: The Hunt for Red October

"The Hunt for Red October" (1990) is an action thriller where Captain Marko Ramius (Connery) defects to the US with the Soviet Union's newest nuclear submarine, "Red October". Based on Tom Clancy's 1984 novel, Ramius' goal is to prevent a nuclear war: "Well, there are those who believe that we should attack the United States first. Settle everything in one moment. Red October was built for that purpose." Connery was able to draw on his own military experience for this role, having served in the Royal Navy between 1946 and 1949 before receiving a medical discharge. Also starring Alec Baldwin, James Earl Jones and Sam Neill, the film was directed by John McTiernan. It was nominated for three Academy Awards, winning for Best Sound Effects Editing. The Rotten Tomatoes website (89% approval) described "The Hunt for Red October" as "Perfectly cast and packed with suspense." When Phoenix Rising's psnz spied this question, he silently slid it into the quiz.

From Quiz Sean Connery - His Movies

Answer: Time Bandits

From Quiz Sean Connery - His Movies

Answer: The Man Who Would Be King

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