James Bond Trivia

[IdolEyes787]

Geez, you sound like a member of SPECTRE

T.H.R.U.S.H. actually .

[brightsid]

Actually I have a real dislike for web-trivia pissing contests because people are mostly just looking up and copy/pasting from somewhere else to win/look smarter than they are/participate.
Now if anyone could prove that they were pulling facts from their head than instead of just from a webpage I might be truly impressed.

Although I knew that detail about the first edition of Casino Royale without googling around, I agree web trivia contests are useless
And there is nothing fun with them

[IdolEyes787]

Actually I have a real dislike for web-trivia pissing contests because people are mostly just looking up and copy/pasting from somewhere else to win/look smarter than they are/participate.
Now if anyone could prove that they were pulling facts from their head than instead of just from a webpage I might be truly impressed.

Although I knew that detail about the first edition of Casino Royale without googling around, I agree web trivia contests are useless
And there is nothing fun with them

Funny James Bond's parents, his Scottish father Andrew from the mountainous region of Glencoe and a fine representative of the Vickers armament firm and mother Monique Delacroix named( Delacroix ) after a Swiss banker that Ian Fleming knew from Canton de Vaud frequently argued over the same thing.

[Artemis]

Web trivia is one thing but I have read alot of factual background about the U.S.S.R. including the Gulag Archipeligo by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn which documents (as much as can be) the activities of Department V of Directorate 6 of the KGB the so called 'wet operations' (read murder) branch of which Smert Spionam was one department. Smersh simply assasinated all foreign intelligence operatives that they found.
Interestingly the early James Bond books weave fiction amongst fact. Ian Fleming was an intelligence operative (a Lieutenant Commander himself), and some of the incidents in the early Bond books are thinly veiled accounts from his own career.
There is Bonds assasination of the Japanese diplomat in which two shooters were required since he was behind a plate glass window, one to shatter the glass and one to take out the target. Then there is the incident where Bond drives through part of Africa with an Oerlikon 20mm cannon mounted on a flatbed truck to shoot down a plane at a specific time and place.
In a way the Eon films have done an injustice to a character if you have read the books Bond was far less elegant than portrayed by Cubby Brocoli but far more real and visceral.