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1.	The movie opens with Bond observing a terrorist arms bazaar on the Russian border. Bond’s call-sign is:
		White Knight
		Black Rook
		Red Queen
		the Bishop

2.	The theme song for Tomorrow Never Dies is sung by:
		k.d. lang
		Sheryl Crow
		Bjork
		Susannah Hoffs

3.	After the credits, the scene changes to the South China Sea, where a Royal navy vessel is about to be sunk. Name the ship.
		HMS Phoenix
		HMS Tenby
		HMS Devonshire
		HMS Sea Spanker

4.	The sea drill that sinks the Devonshire is launched from a stealth:
		ship
		aircraft
		submarine
		drone

5.	Media mogul Elliott Carver is behind the sinking. He also plans to blackmail the President of the United States with a video of the President:
		dancing to the Pointer Sisters
		ordering a cover up of a political scandal
		accepting a bribe from a wealthy industrialist
		with a cheerleader in a Chicago motel room

6.	Bond is in Oxford, “studying a new tongue”, which is…:
		Hungarian
		Danish
		Finnish
		Portuguese

7.	Carver raises suspicion by releasing details about the Devonshire’s sinking before MI6 and the Royal Navy are aware of them. What’s the name of his newspaper?
		Illuminator
		Citizen
		Informer
		Tomorrow

8.	Q is undercover in Hamburg, posing as:
		an airline agent
		a porter
		a car rental agent
		a tourist guide

9.	Q gives Bond his product-placed cellphone, which does not include:
		a fingerprint scanner
		a remote control for his BMW
		a 20,000 volt security system
		a switchblade

10.	Bond is undercover as well. He goes to one of Carver’s parties pretending to be a banker, specialising in what?
		hostile takeovers
		tender offers
		reverse IPOs
		cross-border mergers

11.	At the party, Bond meets Wai Lin, a Chinese agent also investigating Carver. She is played by:
		Zhang Ziyi
		Michelle Yeoh
		Maggie Cheung
		Shu Qi

12.	Carver’s wife, Paris, is also at the party. She is played by:
		Kristin Davis
		Teri Hatcher
		Eva Longoria
		Marcia Cross

13.	Turns out Paris is one of Bond’s old flames. What music plays over their reunion?
		Beyond the Sea
		As Time Goes By
		It Had To Be You
		Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye

14.	Bond finds the missing GPS locator in the safe used by Carver’s hired terrorist, Gupta. What is not in the safe
		cash
		drugs
		porn
		a gun

15.	Speaking of Gupta, he is played by which magician?
		David Copperfield
		Ricky Jay
		Penn Jillette
		Criss Angel

16.	An anonymous Carver henchman is crushed in one of Carver’s newspaper presses:
		“They’ll print anything these days.”
		“Looks like he made the front page.”
		“He had a pressing engagement.”
		“Now I know what’s black and white and red all over.”

17.	Carver’s bleach blond German henchman is named:
		Stomper
		Tramper
		Stamper
		Klomper

18.	Doctor Kaufman is a professional assassin, who specialises in faking suicides and accidental deaths. He is especially good at:
		drownings
		auto-erotic asphyxiation
		car accidents
		celebrity overdoses

19.	The potential for conflict between Britain and China escalates. Which newspaper headline is Carver particularly proud of even though it isn’t from one of his newspapers?
		Big Trouble for Little China!
		The Empire Will Strike Back!
		Enter the Dragon!
		Carry On Up The Khyber!

20.	When things are going well for Carver, he is fond of saying:
		“Sensational”
		“Delicious”
		“Exquisite”
		“Scrumptious”

21.	Bond and Wai Lin are chased through the streets of Saigon by a helicopter, which they dispatch using:
		a flare gun
		a fire hydrant
		a clothesline
		a paper clip, a hair dryer and some gum

22.	Carver has been promised exclusive broadcasting rights in China for the next 100 years. What does he have to do to get it?
		sink the entire Royal Navy
		gain remote control of all the world’s satellites
		flatten China’s government with a stolen British cruise missile
		cause a nuclear meltdown in Hong Kong

23.	Wai Lin talks about being a Chinese intelligence agent: “It's mostly dull routine, of course, but every now and then you get to sail on a beautiful evening like this. And sometimes…”
		play with live explosives
		jump off a building while handcuffed to a British spy
		work with a decadent agent of a corrupt Western power
		beat up some Tibetans

24.	Carver meets his demise when Bond:
		straps him to a mine then explodes it
		fires him out of a torpedo tube
		traps him against a cruise missile, which launches
		grinds him up with the sea drill

25.	Bonus Question: Tomorrow Never Dies is the first Bond movie title without any relation to Fleming. It got its name from an alternate proposed title, with one word changed to ‘dies’. What could the movie have been called?
		Tomorrow Never Lies
		Tomorrow Never Knows
		Tomorrow Never Tells
		Tomorrow Never Comes