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James Bond Music Quiz

Bond_ScoresBond_Scores UK
in Music Posts: 119
I thought it would be fun to put together a quiz on the music of the Bond films, devising questions with answers you’d struggle to find on Google! I think you’re a pretty knowledgeable group when it comes to this topic, so I’m sure you’ll do fine ;)

The questions only refer to the official EON series and some of the answers may be up for debate. PM me your responses and I’ll share the answers and winner(s) next week. Good luck!

1. Occasionally the main theme is teased in the score before the opening credits. How many times has that happened in a Bond film?

2. How many scores feature a choir (synthesised choirs do not count)?

3. Who is the only performer of a Bond song not to be credited in the main title sequence?

4. Which leitmotif (musical theme) occurs in the most films (discounting the James Bond theme and 007)?

5. Spelling mistakes or typos have often plagued the releases of the Bond soundtracks. List five such errors.

6. Which lyricist has written the most James Bond songs?

7. Which Bond theme song has the most writers?

8. Which Bond composers have incorporated the main title into their scores, even when it’s not been their own composition?

9. Which was the first Bond theme to be edited for the main title?

10. Which score uses the James Bond theme the most (or variations therein) according to the cue sheet?

Comments

  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 18,238
    Well this is a lot of fun, I’ll need to have a think about these when I have some time (just bumping the thread so it’s not forgotten!)
  • mattjoesmattjoes Dakato Johnson
    Posts: 7,159
    Challenge accepted.
  • bcaloubcalou France
    Posts: 87
    Thank you for putting this together @Bond_Scores, your questions are very interesting and challenging!
    I will try too, without checking the movies or soundtrack...
  • Reflsin2bourbonsReflsin2bourbons
    edited June 14 Posts: 415
    1.
    Maybe in NTTD and FRWL? So 2?
    2.
    I can only think of DAD's Icarus, so 1.
    3.
    Probably Matt Monro, right? He only performs the song at the end.
    4.
    It's probably OHMSS. Depending on how stringent the definition is that is (so if things like Snow Job or Jinx, James and Genes count). That would be OHMSS, AVTAK, TWINE, DAD and NTTD. Else it's the Vesper theme (CR, QoS, NTTD), or Arnold's suspense motif (first heard in Pipeline and used in TWINE, DAD and CR (I think).)
    5. No clue.
    6.
    Don Black is the only Bond-related lyricist I can name, so even though it's probably not him (a lot of rejected/potential tracks!) I'll just try it.
    7.
    No clue. May TMWTGG or Nobody Does it Better?
    8.
    For sure Arnold. He did with DAD and QoS. Maybe Bill Conti and Michael Kamen as well?
    9.
    YOLT.
    10.
    LTK. It appears 60-something times in the film and it got a glossy new re-release that should cover all the uses.
  • humblepilothumblepilot UK
    Posts: 11
    I'm a real pedant for spelling and grammar, so the answers to question five have me quite interested. I can think of a few off-hand, one of which always annoys me, and wasn't even corrected in a recent re-release!
  • AnotherZorinStoogeAnotherZorinStooge Bramhall (Irish)
    Posts: 535
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