Ready, Aim ... Fire! Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Man with the Golden Gun

Bond has been brainwashed by the Russians with the order to kill his chief, M. The plan fails, Bond is put through a rehabilitation programme and put to rights. To prove himself a trusted employee he is given the mission to kill a Cuban assassin by the name of Francisco Scaramanga who had been causing MI6 some grief in recent times. Scaramanga is known for having three nipples, using a golden bullet with which to make his kills and being a deadly accurate shot. The assignment is essentially a suicide mission for Bond.

In "Thunderball" Bond's primary mission is to recover two nuclear missiles that had been stolen by SPECTRE. In "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" he is on the trail of Ernst Stavro Blofeld and in "Live and Let Die" he is sent to the United States to investigate a crime lord known as "Mr Big".

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Answer: W.A.R.P.

The Witness Anonymous Relocation Program is a covert FBI operation that takes witnesses of crime from the present and hides them in the past to keep them safe. Nineteenth-century Riley is accidentally sucked into one of the FBI's time travel portals along with the portal's key while on a mission with Albert Garrick. Albert Garrick pursues Riley through time to gain control of this "magic".

Irish author Eoin Colfer wrote the "Artemis Fowl" and "W.A.R.P." books.

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Answer: Al Neri

Although a policeman is normally not allowed to become a member of the mafia, aka a made man, an exception is made in Al's case because he served time in prison for manslaughter after killing a drug dealer/pimp with his flashlight. Tom Hagen and Peter Clemenza arrange for his release from prison and appeal to his Sicilian-American roots in recruiting him. He serves Michael in the same capacity as that in which Luca Brasi served Michael's father Vito, and with the same loyalty and devotion. When Michael cleans house to re-establish his family's control of organized crime, it is Neri who kills Moe Greene in Vegas and Emilio Brazini in New York on the courthouse steps while wearing his old policeman uniform. In the movie Neri only kills Brazini, because the two assassinations take place simultaneously, but this is a departure from the novel.

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Answer: The Guild of Death

The Nighthawks have a chequered history through the stories created by Feist. Initially portrayed as fanatics who would rather commit suicide than be taken prisoner, they were gifted in the arts of stealth, infiltration and, of course, murder. They would ally themselves with the darker powers, such as the Temple of Lims-Kragma, worshipers of the Goddess of Death, and upon dying had the ability to return as virtually unstoppable killing machines called the Black Slayers. These Slayers could only be destroyed by magical means, having their hearts removed or their bodies totally destroyed. Nearly wiped out by Tomas the Dragon Lord in their attempts to conquer the Elf heartland of Elvandor, they sought sanctuary under the Cavell Keep where they came under the influence of a magician by the name of Navon du Sandau and were soon employed by a group of dark elves called the Moredhel. However, on the passing of their leader, they lost direction and faded into obscurity. Have they gone? Who knows? As Jimmy the Hand once said, "They are harder to stomp out than cockroaches".

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Answer: Eric Van Lustbader

Bourne first appears in Ludlum's "The Bourne Identity" (1980), found floating in the Mediterranean with two bullets in his back and suffering from severe memory loss. What he doesn't know is that he is a trained assassin working for an undercover project called Treadstone 71. As he struggles to recover his identity he is being hunted by his enemies from his past and his employers who fear he has gone rogue. Ludlum completed three novels in the "Bourne" saga.

After getting permission from Ludlum's family, Eric Van Lustbader picked up the reins and continued the Bourne series. In 2004 he wrote the first of his Bourne novels, titled "The Bourne Legacy".

Lustbader's first major breakthrough came with his novel "The Ninja" that was released in 1980; ironically, in the same year Ludlum posted the first of his Bourne novels.

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Answer: John Rain

John Rain is the main character in several of Barry Eisler's espionage novels. He is of mixed Japanese-American parentage, once served in the Vietnam War and was eventually recruited by the CIA Special Forces before choosing the path of an assassin. John Rain assassinates targets on the conditions that his victims are not women or children, there is no secondary group working on the same mission, and that his victims are the main targets only, not innocent parties snuffed out as a warning to the main target. John Rain is skilled at making his targets appear to have died of natural causes, a talent that is greatly valued by his clients.

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Answer: Chade Fallstar

Fitz is the bastard son of the King-in-Waiting, Chivalry. When Chivalry is killed the King, Shrewd, takes young Fitz under his own protection. In light of his illegitimacy he also seeks to keep him from the politics of succession and passes him on to Chade, the Royal Assassin, as his apprentice. Eventually Fitz will learn that Chade is also a bastard, a half-brother to King Shrewd, and, as a result of an accident which severely disfigured him he had stepped so far out of the public eye that most had considered him dead. This is a pretty neat situation for an assassin, if I must say so. Fitz has been gifted with both sides of the Dragon's magic. He has the Skill, which allows him to share both thoughts and strength with others, and the Wit, that allows him to bond telepathically with animals. He had been brought up to believe that the Wit is a dark magic and, as such, is reticent to employ the Skill as he believes that it may be tainted by his other power.

As mentioned above, Shrewd is the King of the realm known as the Six Duchies, Burrich is the stablemaster who raises Fitz in his early years and continues to be a stabilising influence on him and Brawndy is the Duke of the Duchy of Bearns. Brawndy has two daughters, Faith and Celerity, the latter of which the King (Shrewd) is trying to marry off to Fitz for political gain.

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Answer: Jango Fett

In the novelization of "Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones", Jango Fett was hired to assassinate Senator Amidala but outsourced the job to Zam Wesell. Wesell failed, so Jango eliminated her.

Jango was the genetic source material for the clones that made up Grand Army of the Republic. As part of the deal he had Boba Fett made as an unaltered clone of himself.

He appears in the "Star Wars Adventures" books "Jango Fett vs. The Razor Eaters", "The Shape Shifter Strikes", and "Warlords of Balmorra", as well as the "Jedi Readers" books "Jango Fett: Bounty Hunter" and "Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive".

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Answer: Sanctions

In "The Eiger Sanction", Dr Jonathan Hemlock collects paintings by sourcing them from the black market. He carries out counter assassinations for the CII, a secret agency of the government, to finance his hobby. His missions, during which he eliminates killers of government agents, are termed "sanctions". "The Eiger Sanction" is about a sanction he is commissioned to carry out on Mount Eiger, where his victim is believed to have gone climbing. Dr Hemlock joins the mountaineering team and has to identify his intended victim during the trip itself.

Trevanian is the pseudonym of Rodney William Whitaker.

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Answer: The Faceless Men

Arya Stark is a free spirited, tomboyish young girl when first introduced, and appears to be unrestrained by social norms or values. She makes the trip to King's Landing with her father, but it soon turns into a journey of death and tragic loss for her. In her escape from the castle she is caught by the Hound and, in his company, she becomes exposed to a more animalistic level of murder and killing, so much so that she becomes more detached from it with each event. Her venture carries her to Braavos where she enters the Temple of Black and White and it is here that she becomes an apprentice to the Faceless Men. The Faceless Men are disciples of the "Many-Faced God", the God of Death, and their motivations are rooted within their god's doctrine. The fees they charge for their executions are exorbitant, but their reputation and their abilities to carry out their missions are second to none. Their goal is to be precise in their kills; in other words, they endeavour to take out only the intended victim and no other. They also make the effort to ensure that the death appears to be accidental. These actions all serve to build upon their legend. They are sometimes called shape-shifters, but this is somewhat of a misnomer as they cannot change their mass. They can only alter their appearances within the dimensions they possess.

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