Diamonds Are Forever Trivia Quiz

Answer: Scorpion

The scorpion has emerged from its hole in the middle of the night for food. A man sitting beneath the bush kills the scorpion when he hears a helicopter. Diamonds stolen from a mine in Sierra Leone are exchanged for money and the men part ways.

Answer: House of Diamonds

M knows there is a shipment of hot ice in London which is on the way to America. James Bond will be inserted into the pipeline when the intended carrier, Peter Franks, is taken into custody.

Answer: Seraffimo

The Spangs own controlling interest in House of Diamonds and The Tiara, a Las Vegas casino and are head of the Spangled Gang. M takes American gangsters very seriously, but James Bond doesn't.

Answer: listening to records

Tiffany asked a few questions and accepted 'Peter Franks' into the smuggling operation. He told her his real name was James Bond and he needed to get out of England for awhile because 'somebody died'.

Answer: golf balls

Dunlop 65s, actually. After Bond left she called her connection to the mob, ABC, which was only a telephone number to a tape recorder in a deserted room somewhere in London.

Answer: Wint and Kidd

James Bond had no idea who they were, and felt compassion for the fat man. Travelling under the names Winter and Kitteridge, they were yet another guard against Bond and Tiffany taking the stones for themselves and 'going private'.

Answer: 18

Worth around $300,000 after being cut, it was a small fortune. Bond asked for his pay of $5000. Shady Tree gave Bond $1000 which he 'owed him from the time he was in England during the war' and told him to go to Saratoga and bet it all on a horse named Shy Smile. And play him to win.

Answer: Diamonds are Forever

At the end of the book Bond realizes that diamonds aren't the only thing that lasts forever. Death is forever too.

Answer: it was a front tail

He stepped into a store and was confronted by his old friend Felix Leiter whom he had last seen in bandages during the "Live and Let Die" story. Felix had lost an arm and leg in the shark attack. It turned out Leiter was now working for Pinkertons and was after the Spangled Gang because the horse Shy Smile was a ringer-the real Shy Smile was long dead and replaced by Pickapepper.

Answer: Studillac

Studebaker body with a Cadillac engine. And it was clocked at 127 mph at Daytona. Even in America Bond managed to get into fast cars.

Answer: Tingaling

Leiter cornered Bell and told him he had the goods on Shy Smile and offered Bell $2000 to ride foul in the race, which he accepted.

Answer: poured steaming hot mud on his face

Bell wasn't killed, just taught a lesson. He would be in the hospital for quite some time with severe burns to his face. There was 'bloody chaos' while the attendants released people from their boxed-in mud baths and dug the mud off Bell's face.

Answer: he had a wart on his thumb

Felix Leiter knows who the man with the 'angry red wart' is and tells Bond the two were Wint and Kidd, torpedoes from Detroit. The wart is red because he sucks on it. "Someday he's gonna wish he'd had that wart removed," Leiter commented.

Answer: blackjack dealer

Tiffany deals Bond winning hands four times from a stacked deck.

Answer: roulette

He gets his first sight of Seraffimo Spang when Spang angrily charges into the ring. Bond calmly plays the maximum one more time and walks away with $20,000 of Spang's money. He nearly always has great luck at gambling, unlike me.

Answer: drive-in theater

Though rare nowdays, drive-ins were quite common back in the fifties. Most people who are old enough to remember those days probably know where the term 'passion pit' came from. Firsthand possibly.
Ernie Cureo is knocked out and later tells Felix Leiter of Bond's probable whereabouts while in the hospital.

Answer: a western town

Seraffimo Spang has built an entire western town called Spectreville where a ghost town once stood. He spends weekends there and has lavish parties at times.

Answer: a steam locomotive

It was actually an 1870 'Highland Light' 4-4-0 named The Cannonball with tender and a lavish Pullman car attached. Ian Fleming was apparently attached to antique trains. Besides this story, trains also play a big role in "From Russia With Love" and "The Man With The Golden Gun".

Answer: Brooklyn stomping. Eighty per center.

James Bond is kicked and stomped by Wint and Kidd, but nothing is broken and he gives nothing away. Later, he realizes that an eighty per-center probably meant no broken bones. Tiffany Case is also present and puts on a show of not caring about James Bond being tortured.

Answer: a sidecar

The gas powered sidecar chugs down the train track at thirty miles per hour. Then Bond and Tiffany hear Spang's train giving pursuit. Just as Bond asks her if there is enough gas in the tank, the engine dies and they coast to a stop.

Answer: move some old points to send Spang's engine onto a spur line

Under gunfire from Spang, Bond shoots and hits Spang just as his locomotive takes the sharp and unexpected curve toward the mountains. Some time later a huge crash and explosion are heard from the abandoned rail line. Tiffany and Bond reach the parallel highway two miles away just as Bond collapses. Felix Leiter, now in Nevada looking for Shy Smile's remains, was alerted to Bond's probable location by Ernie Cureo.

He finds them along the highway after seeing Spectreville in flames, picks them up and gets them to California quickly, then on a plane back to New York.

Answer: aboard the Queen Elizabeth

One of the similarities to the movie. But we also see a fattish man with a suitcase which says "My blood group is F" and another square jawed blond man get on board at the last minute.

Answer: sucking his thumb

This made Bond's memory start to work, but Tiffany interrupted and they went off to his room. Later he recalled what Leiter had said about Wint needing to get rid of that wart.

Answer: telegraph from M

M had intercepted a wire from Jack Spang to 'Winter' which ordered Tiffany's death for $20,000. Suddenly everything fell into place for Bond, from the 'man whose blood group was F' to the wart on the thumb. Bond broke into their room while they were torturing Tiffany and shot them both, making the deaths look like they had an argument at cards. Bond then ended up in Africa waiting for the last shipment of diamonds to take place by the same thorn bush where the book started.

The pilot, Jack Spang, alias Rufus B. Saye, alias ABC, shot the dentist and tried to take off. Bond shot his helicopter down, which crashed into the thorn bush and exploded.

Answer: It reads better than it lives

As Bond thought of the diamonds in the midst of the inferno, he was reminded of the man whose blood group had been F. His dead eyes had told Bond that nothing was forever except death. But James Bond realized diamonds were forever too. Those in the inferno would survive and make their way across the world someplace, forever indestructible.