Ian Fleming Trivia

1. Ian Fleming described henchman Irma Bunt as "a short, strong, very sunburned female wardress; with a square, brutal face with hard yellow eyes, and brownish grey hair, tied in a tight, neat bun." Which two James Bond novels did she appear in?

From Quiz You Only Lackey Once

Answer: "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and "You Only Live Twice"

Irma Bunt is Blofeld's right hand 'man' and leads his Angels of Death (English women seeking allergy treatment, brainwashed by Irma Bunt to contaminate the food supply according to their own allergies). She is a hard, cold woman who is probably elevated in the Fleming henchman ranking in the subsequent movie of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" when she kills Bond's wife Tracy. In the book she only drove the car from which Blofeld killed Tracy. To escape the uproar after Tracy's murder, the pair flee to Japan and later appear in "You Only Live Twice". Blofeld buys a castle and fills it with a 'garden of death'. In this novel it is revealed that Bunt and Blofeld are in a relationship. Bond is captured in the castle but knocks Bunt unconscious with a staff, then strangles Blofeld to death. Bond escapes the castle in a weather balloon, the castle explodes and presumably Bunt dies. She, at least, never re-appears in any Fleming Bond novel. This question was written by Phoenix Rising Team member 1nn1.

From Quiz The Background of Bond

Answer: The World Is Not Enough

In the 1963 novel "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", James Bond visits the College of Arms in London, on the pretext of researching his family history. During his interview with the genealogist Sable Basilisk, Bond is shown the coat of arms of his ancestor, Sir Thomas Bond, which is described as "Argent, on a chevron sable three bezants", with the motto "Orbis Non Sufficit", which translates as "The World Is Not Enough"; this was displayed on the cover of the novel's first edition, and subsequently in the 1969 film. This is the actual coat of arms and motto of the real Sir Thomas Bond, an English landowner who served as the comptroller of the household of Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of King Charles I. The motto is believed to originate from the "Pharsalia", an epic Roman war poem by Lucan, as an uncomplimentary reference to Julius Caesar, with its English translation used as the title of the 1999 film starring Pierce Brosnan as James Bond.

From Quiz Moonraker

Answer: in the shooting range beneath headquarters

Bond and the 'instructor' are having a quick draw silhouette shooting contest as part of Bond's regular practice. The instructor wins this particular shootout much to the disbelief of Bond. As Bond walks dejectedly to the elevator, he is wondering how to find the extra split second advantage to win the next contest. The instructor thought about telling Bond he is the best shot in the service, but he knows only M can have that information.

From Quiz Live And Let Die

Answer: Idlewild Airport

Bond is impressed with the VIP treatment he receives upon entering the USA via New York. The FBI has gotten him through immigration without the usual delay in checking his passport. In a short time he is taken to his hotel with passport stamped.

From Quiz Casino Royale

Answer: a casino

He is playing roulette at Casino Royale. It is three in the morning and he leaves his game to check on Le Chiffre, who he finds is still winning. Bond is also mentally checking the improbability of the casino being robbed as he goes to his hotel for the night.

From Quiz Diamonds Are Forever

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.

From Quiz "Octopussy": a Bond Short Story

Answer: For Your Eyes Only

The book "Octopussy and The Living Daylights" (1966) was the fourteenth and last James Bond book written by Ian Fleming, though published two years after his death by Jonathan Cape. It originally contained two short stories, "Octopussy" and "The Living Daylights," unsurprisingly! "Octopussy" was serialized in "The Daily Express" a year before its book publication, and "The Living Daylights" in "The Sunday Times" in 1962. In subsequent editions of "Octopussy and The Living Daylights", two other short stories, previously serialized in two different newspapers in 1963, have been included: "The Property of a Lady" and "007 in New York" (the last not added until 2002 by Penguin Books). Even with these additions, the book remains under 100 pages long. By convention the "The" is capitalized because the collection's title is a combination of the first two short stories. "For Your Eyes Only" was first published in a collection of the same name in 1960. It has never been published as a part of the "Octopussy" anthology.

From Quiz The Diamond Smugglers

Answer: 1950s

Fleming's publishing career was brief, from his first novel, "Casino Royale", in 1953 to his last collection of short stories, "Octopussy and The Living Daylights" in 1966. "The Diamond Smugglers" was released in the UK in 1957 and the US in 1958. It was published on the coat tails of Fleming's fifth novel "From Russia With Love" which came out in April 1957. Despite Fleming's star being on the rise at the time "The Diamond Smugglers" did not do as well as expected; the major disappointment for Fleming fans was that it was not a tale about James Bond.

From Quiz Live and Let Die

Answer: New York City

James disembarks the airplane at Idlewild airport, which is the old name for the John F. Kennedy Airport in the Big Apple. It gained this name after the golf course which had originally stood there, and although it was renamed Major General Alexander E. Anderson Airport in 1943, the nickname of Idlewild stuck until the mid 1960s. James is called in to help with an issue involving Harlem, St. Petersburg and Jamaica, which at this time is under the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom.

From Quiz The Food and Drink of James Bond

Answer: He sprinkles black pepper into his pre-war Wolfschmidt vodka

Bond explains that sprinkling pepper into vodka is a habit he acquired in Moscow, as it takes the fusel oil from badly distilled vodka to the bottom of the glass. He apologises to 'M' for insulting the club's prize Rigan Wolfschmidt.

From Quiz Devil May Care

Answer: an Algerian drug runner is killed in Paris

The three wrong answers are from the books "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and "From Russia With Love" and from the film version of "Live and Let Die". Drug smuggler Yusuf Hahim is executed in Paris in an especially savage way: his tongue is ripped from his mouth with pliers, because he's informed to the authorities! By the way, the novel is set in the middle to late 1960s, when the Vietnam War was in full swing, and the popularity of the Bond stories were skyrocketing, thanks to the popular film versions.

From Quiz Casino Royale

Answer: Cypher

James Bond has been assigned to a new case in France. Accumulating a large sum of money from London, and setting up contacts in Jamaica, Bond began to create a cover so that he could bring down a mysterious man named Le Chiffre, the paymaster of the 'Syndicat des Ouvriers d'Alsace'. The man opened and made use of his own brothels before these were closed down and he got into finances and became affiliated with SMERSH, a Russian organization initially dedicated to the forceful removal of spies in the USSR. Theorists say that SMERSH was responsible for numerous assassinations of famous Russians, and only one double agent has been questioned before he killed himself with a cyanide pill. It is up to the alliance to eliminate members of this organization. To prevent the start of a large war, Bond has been assigned to defeat Le Chiffre, who has taken to the casino to make up the funds needed to fuel this war. If Bond defeats Le Chiffre (known for his notorious luck) at the baccarat table, then odds are, this will result in the death of Le Chiffre as well, who, like Bond, is being closely watched by SMERSH operatives.

From Quiz James Bond

Answer: Wattenscheid

Bond was born in 1920 in Wattenscheid, Switzerland. His father, Andrew Bond was a Scot and his mother, Monique Delacroix was Swiss. They both died in a climbing accident in the Aigulles Rouges when Bond was a child. Evelyn St. Croix Fleming was Ian Fleming's mother and Kitzbuhel was where Ian Fleming studied in Austria before the War.

From Quiz "From Russia With Love", by Ian Fleming

Answer: Donovan

We find this out in chapter one, before he recieves a telephone call for his next mission. He is later given the codename of 'Granitski', when he signs up for the Soviet Secret Service. Grant loves killing on the full moon, so his superiors used to let him murder some inmates at the local prison. He never had any friends at school, and according to Fleming, if he wanted anything, he just took it with or without a fight.

From Quiz Casino Royale

Answer: Charles Dasilva

Bond's cover is that he is the son of a wealthy Jamaican plantation owner. Charles DaSilva of Chaffery's Kingston, he said, would make the story stick if questions arose.

From Quiz The Literary Bond

Answer: Etched a letter into Bond's hand

The assassin knew that Bond was a spy, but didn't have any orders to kill him specifically. So he carved a winged M into Bond's hand, equivalent to the Russian letter 'sch', the first letter of 'schpion' the Russian word for spy, ensuring that he would be marked in the future. At the start of the second book, 'Live and Let Die', Bond has recently had cosmetic surgery to disguise the mark.

From Quiz The Background of Bond

Answer: Chamonix

"You Only Live Twice" was the first novel to be written after the release of the film version of "Dr No", which starred Sean Connery in the role of James Bond. Although initially against Connery's casting, Ian Fleming warmed to the actor's portrayal, and altered aspects of the character in the books to fit the screen persona. This included giving Bond a Scottish ancestry - Bond's father is named as Andrew Bond of Glen Coe in the Scottish Highlands, who is employed as a travelling representative of Vickers, a British engineering firm. Bond's mother is Monique Delacroix, from the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Much of Bond's early life is spent abroad due to his father's work, allowing him to become fluent in both French and German. When Bond was 11, his parents were killed in an accident while climbing in the Aiguilles Rouges, a massif close to Mont Blanc and near the resort of Chamonix. This is the sum total of information revealed by Fleming about Bond's family, which comes from the character's obituary in "The Times" following his apparent death at the end of the book.

From Quiz Moonraker

Answer: Loelia Ponsonby

Although not mentioned in many stories, Miss Ponsonby is his secretary in the early books. Miss Ponsonby worries constantly about the three members of the 00 section while they are abroad. Moneypenny is M's secretary.

From Quiz Live And Let Die

Answer: it was driven by a black woman

His FBI contact, Captain Dexter, was taking care of Bond's luggage and didn't see it. The woman was dressed as a chauffeur, and in the back seat sat a large man with a grey-black face who watched Bond as the car sped away. Upon entering his hotel room, Bond found Felix Leiter waiting. He hadn't seen Felix since the Casino Royale affair.

From Quiz The Diamond Smugglers

Answer: The Sunday Times

At the time of the articles Ian Fleming was working for "The Sunday Times" as their foreign manager. The articles evolved from conversations that he had with Sir Percy Sillitoe in 1954 and the research Fleming conducted as a result of the interviews. The book goes on to expand on the work in the articles, which are also re-printed in a section of the book.

From Quiz Live and Let Die

Answer: Felix Leiter

Felix Leiter is a good ally to James in a few of Fleming's novels, and helped James when he was in a financial jam during "Casino Royale". Felix is able to work with James on the international part of the case, but not on the American part, since that is to be left up to the FBI.

From Quiz Bond's Cars - it's not all Aston Martins...

Answer: Cord

Cord cars were made by the Auburn Automobile Company in the early part of the twentieth century and are regarded as innovative technologically. Bond thought the 15 year-old model he was picked up in as 'still one of the most modern-looking cars in the world'. Bond left the car in the airport parking lot at Tampa. If you would like to own one yourself, they are some very nice-looking ones available for approximately £100,000 ($163,000)!

From Quiz Women in "Bondage"

Answer: Miss Moneypenny

Miss Moneypenny was secretary to M. She 'would have been desirable, but for eyes which were cool and direct and quizzical' in the first book, 'Casino Royale', but by the second book, 'Live and Let Die', she had become 'the desirable Miss Moneypenny'. We were introduced to Bond's secretary Loelia Ponsonby in book three, 'Moonraker'. She was described as 'tall and dark with a reserved unbroken beauty' and also as 'one of the most envied girls in the building'. She didn't like Bond calling her 'Lil'. In 'Thunderball', Bond was having a bad day, not only suffering a hangover, but his secretary had got flu and he had been given 'a silly, and worse, ugly' woman from the typing pool. Mary Goodnight made her first appearance in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' where she was described as an ex-Wren with a 37-22-35 figure (note to metric quizzers - these measurements are in inches!) Mary Goodnight also appeared in 'The Man with the Golden Gun'.

From Quiz Devil May Care

Answer: Vatican City, Rome

Bond is seeing an Papal audience in St. Peter's Square in his first scene in the book. He's on the last leg of a three-month sabbatical to see if he wants to continue his globe-trotting career or settle down to desk work. He's also been on a regimen of exercise to get back in shape.

From Quiz Casino Royale

Answer: Muntz

Bond arrives in the town of Royale-les-eaux shortly after being assigned to the case and he gains his funds from his boss, M. He is initially sent out with 10 mille francs, but realizing that more would be needed (with Le Chiffre's goal of 50 mille francs), he decided to later set out for the casino to raise his pot. Arriving at his hotel, Bond runs into one of his partners in this mission, Mathis, who tells him that the people residing above him, 'The Muntzes', are spies, and that there are tracking bugs all throughout the room. He notes that if Bond turns on the radio, it will block out any communications to the Muntzes. Mathis also notes that he will be in the company of another MI6 operative, and the paymaster for the mission, but she will be introduced a bit later. As well, there is an American operative, by the name of Felix Leiter, who has been stationed in Fontainebleau who may be of assistance if the need arises. Following their conversation, Mathis treats Bond to lunch with the lovely Vesper Lynd, who Bond quickly takes a liking to. Both of them open up about the mission and find that they're in good hands. As Bond departs, he walks back to his hotel, but off to the side of the road he spots two men in dark suits in straw hats holding briefcases. As he makes his way down the road, one of the briefcases is thrown, and Bond hides as a large explosion erupts in front of him.

From Quiz A Quiz...BOND Quiz....

Answer: He wore medieval armor and had his wife accompany him just about everywhere

For some odd reason, Fleming saw fit to have Blofeld wear medieval armor throughout this novel, as he traveled everywhere with his wife, while trying to corner the market in geothermal (geyser) power. The novel, "YOLT" bore VERY little resemblance to the movie, with only Tiger, Kissy Suzuki, Blofeld and the attempted poisoning of Bond that killed the _other_ Japanese girl instead, (as well as the heavy/light cargo ship quandary,) as shared plot points. Bond was also made up to look Japanese in both the novel and movie. Volcanoes and missiles, prominent in the movie, did _not_ figure heavily in the novel.

From Quiz James Bond

Answer: SMERSH

"SMERSH" (short for Smert Shpionam, or "Death to Spies") was a counterintelligence department in the Soviet Union formed during World War II. "SMERSH" was later used by the KGB to hunt down spies and subversive elements outside of the USSR. "SPECTRE" was a purely fictitious organisation created by Ian Fleming and first appeared in "Thunderball". "SPECTRE" or the "The Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion" was headed by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. "THRUSH" was the adversary in "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." TV series. Neither "THRUSH" nor "UNCLE" actually stood for anything but following persistent questions from viewers the names "Technical Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity" and "United Network Command for Law and Enforcement" were created. The Soviet "NKVD" or People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was formed from the State Political Directorate, or "GPU" and was the predecessor of the "KGB", Committee for State Security.

From Quiz "From Russia With Love", by Ian Fleming

Answer: The Little Nugget

According to Fleming, it is the sort of novel one takes out into the garden, especially whilst visiting SPECTRE Island!

From Quiz Casino Royale

Answer: Medium Wavelength

This is the part when Mathis brings James a radio. Instead of broadcasting the French orchestra, he sets the radio on a long wavelength and turns up the volume, deafening the Muntzes who are listening in on James and Mathis.

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