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Think you know your Bond: The Answers

By Jordan Licht, Deputy Arts Editor (2012/13) Tuesday 1 October 2013

1. It was the name of the author of a book titled Birds of the West Indies (Fleming was an enthusiastic birdwatcher) He chose the name for his British spy because it was appropriately brief and unromantic.

2. In Goldfinger, Pussy Galore is the name of the leader of an all-lesbian organised crime gang, known as the Cement Mixers. After an unsuccessful stint as trapeze artists, her group of performing catwomen, “Pussy Galore and her Abrocats,” train as cat burglars instead, later evolving into the organized crime gang.

3. Major Geoffrey Boothroyd. Named after an actual weapons expert who advised Fleming on the munitions aspects of the Bond stories, Major Boothroyd, or Q, as we would come to be known, was first played by Peter Burton in Dr No. before the role was taken up by Desmon Lleywelyn in From Russia with Love, who would occupy the role until his death in 1999.

4. Bentley and Aston Martin, although in the new novel by William Boyd he drives a Jensen.

5. Oriental languages at Cambridge

6. Kingsley Amis was the first author to write a continuation novel after Ian Fleming’s death in 1964. http://nouse.co.uk/2013/10/01/how-well-do-you-know-bond-the-answers Archived 11 Dec 2018 06:29:45 Nouse Web Archives Think you know your Bond: The Answers Page 2 of 3 Colonel Sun was published in 1968 under the pseudonym “Robert Markham”. It was serialised in the Daily Express newspaper in 1968 and adapted as a comic strip in the same newspaper in 1969–1970.

7. He was in the Royal Navy and was a Commander. In several of the films allies and MI-6 staff refer to 007 as Commander Bond. Also, his fake death in You Only Live Twice received the ceremonious display of a Royal Navy burial at sea.

8. The World Is Not Enough. Hence the title of the 1999 film starring Pierce Brosnan as Bond.

9. This is how Bond orders it in the first Bond book Casino Royale : “Three measures of Gordon’s, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it’s ice-cold, then add a large slice of lemon- peel. Got it?”