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Charlie Higson is probably most well known as the author of the "Young Bond" series, aimed at young adults, providing the back story to the character familiar from the writings of Ian Fleming (and a few movies). His "The Enemy" series is in the post-apocalyptic zombie-horror genre.
3 Charles Higson quizzes and 35 Charles Higson trivia questions.
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  Young Bond: SilverFin   popular trivia quiz  
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The "Young Bond" series, by Charlie Higson, is about what the famous spy, James Bond was like as a kid. This quiz is specifically about the first book of the series, "SilverFin". Have fun doing my quiz!
Tough, 10 Qns, julianman07, Feb 20 09
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  Young Bond: Blood Fever    
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This quiz is about the second book of the "Young Bond" series, "Blood Fever", written by Charles Higson. This is a sequel to my other quiz. James Bond's childhood isn't much less dangerous than his adult life.
Tough, 10 Qns, julianman07, Jul 09 07
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  Young Bond: Double or Die   popular trivia quiz  
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Ending the "Young Bond" series, the book "Double or Die" by Charlie Higson also ends this series of quizzes. Shooting the moon isn't easy, as James Bond learns.
Difficult, 15 Qns, julianman07, Jul 09 07
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How much water is in the ditch that James and Kelly climb into, to get into Lord Hellbore's castle?

From Quiz "Young Bond: SilverFin"




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Charles Higson Trivia Questions
1. How old is Alexis Fairburn?

From Quiz Young Bond: Double or Die

Answer: 32 years

In this chapter, Alexis is being kidnapped by the Smith brothers. They are threatening him with a gun and it says "if the pistol was fired, all those precious memories, that he had been storing for the last thirty-two years would be blasted to oblivion". This quotation is from Chapter 1. The Smith brothers are paid by someone who wants to kidnap Fairburn to force him to work on a machine. This can't be good.

2. What did Amy's mother die from?

From Quiz Young Bond: Blood Fever

Answer: Scarlet fever

Two years ago, Amy's mother died of scarlet fever. When most children are at school, Amy is on holiday with her dad on his yacht in his annual Spring cruise around Greece and nearby islands. Normally she wouldn't be allowed to come but her mother's death brought her father loneliness and he was glad to have Amy for company. Unfortunately, little does Amy's father know that this cruise will be his last.

3. About how old is James' new school, Eton?

From Quiz Young Bond: SilverFin

Answer: 200 years

"Mixing with the two-hundred-year-old school odour". This quotation was taken from Chapter One. James finds this new school strange in many ways, for example, James is surprised when Pritpal says that he will be spending half of his life in his room.

4. How does Fairburn describe the headmaster, Elliot, in his strange letter to Pritpal?

From Quiz Young Bond: Double or Die

Answer: Almighty

All of these are positive comments on the headmaster. The letter to Pritpal is very strange and he soon finds out that it is actually a code, only for Pritpal and his friends to see.

5. One Eton boy has done a very noble deed in the past; what is it?

From Quiz Young Bond: Blood Fever

Answer: Saved the Queen from a madman who had a gun

In Chapter 3, it says that "An Eton boy had once saved the life of Queen Victoria when a madman had tried to shoot her". Apparently, Windsor castle was very close to Eton and King George III was a very close friend to the school, talking to the pupils frequently.

6. "My God! You English are a ________ race!"

From Quiz Young Bond: SilverFin

Answer: barbarous

Pritipal Nandra, James' best friend, says this, commenting on the English food. He came from India, where it is very hot and as many people know, it is quite cold in England.

7. Where does the Crossword Society meet, every Thursday evening?

From Quiz Young Bond: Double or Die

Answer: Spottiswoode's bookshop

It is held in a small back room in Spottiswoode's bookshop. A crossword author, who calls himself Gordius, comes to the meeting. This is a strange man though because he seems not at all interested in crosswords and ends up betting, and losing, against James in a game of Hearts.

8. What happened to the Bentley 'Blower' which Mr. Hanson was selling on the first time out?

From Quiz Young Bond: Double or Die

Answer: Lost a wheel

The first time the car was out on the track it lost a wheel; the second time the engine caught fire. The others I made up. Perry wants to buy it for the Danger Society, if everyone pays a smaller amount and they all pitch in. Although James has a car, he doesn't want to get caught driving it so he doesn't let anyone use it making Perry want to get another one.

9. Victor serves James food made by Poliponi; what was so special about the bread?

From Quiz Young Bond: Blood Fever

Answer: It was shaped like a car

In James' opinion, it was the strangest food he had seen. Victor treats his food like art, shaping them into images. Along with the bread, there was a bowl of pasta with blue cuttlefish ink. Poliponi comments that you can't eat a Picasso or Michelangelo but you can devour a Poliponi.

10. What is the foul tasting food that James eats before his cross country race?

From Quiz Young Bond: SilverFin

Answer: chicken pie with peas and boiled potatoes

The chicken in the pie was stringy and rubbery, the pastry was grey, the peas were ancient and bullet-like and the potatoes were watery. Codrose, James' housemaster, was known for feeding his pupils foul food.

11. James saw a chance to escape from the Smith brothers, but in which town?

From Quiz Young Bond: Double or Die

Answer: Fulford

There was a broken lorry blocking the road. The gap was big enough for James' Bamford and Martin, but couldn't fit the Smith brother's massive Daimler.

12. Why did Victor come to Sardinia?

From Quiz Young Bond: Blood Fever

Answer: To escape

Victor came to Sardinia to escape and for a quiet, peaceful life by the sea. He originally came from Switzerland, a peaceful country. Obviously, life didn't go as expected so Victor fled to Sardinia.

13. What was James' Aunt Chariman's occupation?

From Quiz Young Bond: SilverFin

Answer: Anthropologist

An anthropologist is someone who studies people and their cultures. As a result, her home was very exotic, filled with pictures and statues of many kinds. She was also very knowledgeable and could talk about many topics without boring the audience. She is James' father's sister.

14. What colour were the walls in the hospital James found himself in, after he was found wandering?

From Quiz Young Bond: Double or Die

Answer: Pale green

A travelling salesman found James and brought him to the hospital. James manages to escape the hospital by the iron fire escape. James has to steal a coat and hat to escape.

15. Ugo says that the mountain men love to fight, then he says "Prima beveno, poi stringono!". Zoltan obviously knows the language and translates. What does it mean in English?

From Quiz Young Bond: Blood Fever

Answer: "First they drink, then they fight."

Before Ugo says this, he was watching some men wrestling. Unfortunately for James, Perry said that many Eton boys box so Ugo hosts a boxing competiton with the boys. Zoltan chooses James and Ugo chooses Tony Fitzpaine, a school bully who has some issues with James.

16. What's the engine size of Uncle Max's car?

From Quiz Young Bond: SilverFin

Answer: 1.5 litres

The car is a Bamford and Martin Sidevalve, Short Chassis tourer, pretty complicated, no? Uncle Max also mentions that it's a "one-point-five-litre". This refers to the size of the engine.

17. John Charnnage is a strange man who has a collection of poisons, including belladonna, death cap, cyanide and more. It also includes aconite. What is this also known as?

From Quiz Young Bond: Double or Die

Answer: Monkshood

Monkshood is also commonly known as wolfsbane. All of the others are names of other poisons that John Charnage has. John Charnage is one of Alexis Fairburn's friends but in the end, betrays him (well, actually from the very beginning).

18. According to Ugo, who did the Russians hate?

From Quiz Young Bond: Blood Fever

Answer: The Italians

Here, Ugo is commenting on how to conquer the world, starting at Europe, using Julius Caesar capturing Gaul as an example. Caesar made sure that everone else was fighting each other so they would simply ignore him. He says that the tribes got bigger. The English hate the Germans who hate the Russians who hate the Italians who hate the French who hate everyone.

19. When George Hellbore is out hunting with his father and Cleek MacSawney, how far away is the deer?

From Quiz Young Bond: SilverFin

Answer: Eighty yards

The red deer was five feet tall. Though George is reluctant to shoot, he manages to in the end and its head becomes a trophy in his father's castle's dining room.

20. What do Charles Babbage and Alexis Fairburn have in common?

From Quiz Young Bond: Double or Die

Answer: They both went to Cambridge University

This was stated in James and Pritpal's phone call. Fairburn wasn't exactly an inventor since he was just remaking Babbage's machine and we don't know for sure if Babbage wrote crosswords.

21. How much water is in the ditch that James and Kelly climb into, to get into Lord Hellbore's castle?

From Quiz Young Bond: SilverFin

Answer: two to three inches

James and Kelly hide in a ditch ,which was fairly deep, then while the lorry driver spoke with the man in the guardhouse, they crept into the back of the lorry. Kelly did this with speed so it was obvious that he was used to these sorts of things.

22. When James is about to swat Ludwig Smith like a fly with a tree branch, after Ludwig talks about how he'll kill James, what does James say?

From Quiz Young Bond: Double or Die

Answer: "You talk too much."

In the darkness, Ludwig Smith coudn't see what was happening. James blindly bumped into a branch which sent him backwards. James hoped Ludwig wouldn't notice the branch until it was too late.

23. How deep was the water at its deepest point, in the pool below the cell that Hellbore put him in, where he escaped?

From Quiz Young Bond: SilverFin

Answer: eight feet

There is a hole in the pool that James ventures into, in which he escapes into the lake. James almost drowns in the tunnel but thanks to Max (not physically), he survives and makes it to the lake.

24. When John Charnage is talking about not needing to know James' name, except for on his gravestone, what is his comeback?

From Quiz Young Bond: Double or Die

Answer: "I'd prefer the man who lived to be one hundred and three."

Charnage managed to catch James in the Paradice Club. He was going to poison James but don't be thinking labelled bottles. Anything is poison, even water. It's just that in small doses, it's not harmful. Charnage ends up force-feeding James British Gin.

25. What did Victor do to unintentionally distract Ugo's sister, Jana, who was about to kill James and Amy?

From Quiz Young Bond: Blood Fever

Answer: Tried to sit up

Technically, Victor saved James and Amy's life. Jana wanted to get revenge on James, for some odd reason because he didn't actually destroy the dam, kill Ugo and destroy his palace. James managed to escape with Amy by jumping into the water. When Jana tried to pursue she tripped on the stairs, broke her fingernails on rocks and died on a bed of sea urchins. I hope you have enjoyed my quiz!

26. The pigs that James and George freed near the end of the novel wanted revenge on MacSawney and sensed he was near. How did they sense him?

From Quiz Young Bond: SilverFin

Answer: smell

MacSawney tried to fight back with his rifle but the pigs managed to kill him. There were two quick thuds, then a scream, then finally a sickening crunch. I hope you have enjoyed my quiz; thanks for playing!

27. According to Red Kelly, how old is the Charnage Chemical Works?

From Quiz Young Bond: Double or Die

Answer: 50 years

According to Lou, the Charnage Chemical Works (John Charnage's factory where the Paradice Club is) has been around for 70 years but I asked for Red's opinion, which is 50 years. Most people tend to believe Lou, though.

28. James goes behind a tomb in a cemetery to get to the Royal Docks, with help of the Pneumatic Railway. What is the name on the tomb?

From Quiz Young Bond: Double or Die

Answer: Charles Bishop

The Pneumatic Railway was built last century (note that this book wasn't written in the present time) and was designed to carry mail so it wasn't comfortable for passengers. The system failed to function properly and it was abandoned. A man called Nesbitt found it while running from the police; his friends helped him get it running.

29. What did John Charnage survive in a war?

From Quiz Young Bond: Double or Die

Answer: A mortar blast

Atomic bombs were used in World War Two and in the story, that hasn't happened yet so that's out of the question. Charnage is saying how tough he is by saying the Smith Brothers and Babushka couldn't kill him and nor could a mortar blast.

30. Where is Station X, in relation to London?

From Quiz Young Bond: Double or Die

Answer: 50 miles Northwest

This part of the book is twelve years later, when James fought in World War Two. Here, Nazi Germany's military codes were cracked by a team of very intelligent scientists. James meets Alan Turing, the man he met in Cambridge, and also Alexis Fairburn. I hope you enjoyed the quiz of the last book of the "Young Bond" series!

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