ZERO ZERO

Nickname bestowed upon James Bond (Sean Connery) by Japanese Secret Service chief Tiger Tanaka (Tetsuro Tamba) in You Only Live Twice.

CRAIG, DANIEL

Rugged British actor who made his dynamic debut as James Bond in 2006’s Casino Royale, and completely transformed the 007 series for a new generation of fans. Craig brought a visceral, feral quality to the part of Bond in his first film and its follow-ups

38 DEGREES 17.1 MINUTES NORTH/22 DEGREES 43.2 MINUTES WEST

MidAtlantic position of redesignated pirate nuclear submarine Stromberg No. 2 in The Spy Who Loved Me. James Bond (ROGER MOORE) uses these coordinates to direct the two Stromberg pirate subs to blow each other up with their nuclear missiles.

SOMERSET, MR. AND MRS. DAVID

James Bond (SEAN CONNERY) and Tatiana Romanova's (DANIELA BIANCHI) cover names on the Orient Express in From Russia with Love. According to her passport, Romanova's first name is Caroline. Bond's cover says that he's a businessman returning

O’TOOLE, PETER

Superstar Irish actor who had a cameo role in Casino Royale as a bespectacled bagpipe player who confronts Evelyn Tremble/James Bond (PETER SELLERS).

27

James Bond's (ROGER MOORE) hotel room number, in Octopussy, in Udaipur's Shianivas Hotel.

00-

Code prefix granted to select agents of the British Secret Service such as James Bond, 007, which refers to their “license to kill.”

OUR MAN IN HONG KONG

How the British representative to the UN Security Council refers to James Bond (SEAN CONNERY) at the beginning of You Only Live Twice.

CHOPIN

Composer of classical piano music playing loudly on the radio in James Bond's (BARRY NELSON) Monte carlo hotel room in the TV film "Casino Royale." It prevents Russian masterspy Le Chiffre (PETER LORRE)

JINX

Resourceful, athletic NSA agent portrayed by Halle Berry in Die Another Day. James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) meets her in Cuba when she comes out of the water in an eye-popping orange bikini, an obvious nod to Ursula Andress’s entrance in Dr. No

003

British Secret Service agent found dead by James Bond (Roger Moore) in the snows of Siberia in A View to a Kill.

9’6″

The clearance on a low-level bridge navigated by James Bond’s (ROGER MOORE) double-decker bus in Live and Let Die. Agent 007 clears the bridge, but the collision sheers off the bus’s top level, which is left on the roadway.

SOUVENIRS

The items that James Bond (George Lazenby) removes from his desk when he resigns from the British Secret Service in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. They include Honey Ryder’s belt and knife from Dr. No, Donald Grant’s strangler watch from From Russia with Love, and the miniature rebreather from Thunderball.

7

James Bond’s famous code designation. It is also, appropriately, the number that freezes on the countdown panel when a scientist deactivates the A-bomb in Goldfinger.

SPAIN

The second country chosen in Maximilian Largo’s (KLAUS MARIA BRANDAUER) Domination video-game battle with James Bond (SEAN CONNERY) in Never Say Never Again. It’s worth $9,000, and Largo wins.

Octopussy (United Artists, 1983)

The thirteenth James Bond film produced by Albert R. Broccoli. US release date: June 10, 1983. Budget: $27.5 million. Worldwide box office gross: $187.5 million

PALISADOES AIRPORT

Airport in Kingston, Jamaica, now known as Norman Manley International Airport, that served as the film series’ first shooting location. There, on the morning of January 16, 1962, filmmakers shot James Bond (Sean Connery) arriving in Jamaica aboard Pan American Flight 323 for Dr. No.

300

James Bond's (ROGER MOORE) room number at the Miramonte Hotel in Cortina D'Ampezzo in For Your Eyes Only. Returning to his room after a day's worth of investigation, he finds teenage ice skater

YOUNG, RAYMOND

British actor who portrayed Sierra, James Bond's (SEAN CONNERY) South American contact, in the Goldfinger teaser.

MOONRAKER (United Artists, 1979)

The eleventh James Bond film produced by Albert R. Broccoli. US release date: June 29, 1979. Budget: $30 million. Worldwide box office gross: $210.3 million

COLUMBO, MILOS

Pistachio-chewing Greek smuggler, ex-resistance fighter, and casino owner on Corfu, perfectly portrayed by Israeli actor Topol in For Your Eyes Only. The first impression James Bond (Roger Moore) gets of Columbo is based on the lies of Soviet agent Aris Kristatos (Julian Glover)

GAVIN, JOHN

Handsome American actor of Mexican, Chilean, and Spanish ancestry who was actually signed to play James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever but lost the role to Sean Connery when UA executive David Picker made the veteran 007 one final offer he couldn’t refuse.

ABKARIAN, SIMON

French actor who portrayed Alex Dimitrios, a terrorist arms dealer who loses his Aston Martin DB5 to James Bond (Daniel Craig) in a Bahamas poker game in Casino Royale.

YOUNGSTEIN, MAX

American production executive who, as a vice president with United Artists, made an early, unsuccessful attempt to bring Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels to the big screen. A native New Yorker, Youngstein was turned on to the idea by an English filmmaker named Victor Saville.

ST. ANNA CATHEDRAL AT KIRSCHE

The real location of the de Bleuchamp family tombs, as revealed by Ernst Stavro Blofeld (TELLY SAVALAS) in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Based on incorrect information supplied to him by heraldry expert Sir Hilary Bray (GEORGE BAKER), James Bond

355

Identification number on James Bond's (ROGER MOORE) phony name tag in the Octopussy teaser. Agent 007 is impersonating a South American army officer named Colonel Luis Toro (KEN NORRIS).

SKYFALL (Sony/MGM, 2012)

The twenty-third film in the Eon Productions James Bond series. US release date: November 9, 2012. Budget: $200 million. Worldwide box office gross: $1.1 billion

PAN AMERICAN FLIGHT 323

The airliner James Bond (Sean Connery) takes from New York to Jamaica in Dr. No. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, it was common for transatlantic flights to stop in New York before the jaunt to the islands. Today, direct flights—London to Jamaica—are available.

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James Bond's (SEAN CONNERY) hotel room number in Nassau in Never Say Never Again. The room is destroyed by a bomb planted by SPECTRE assassin Fatima Blush (BARBARA CARRERA). Fortunately, Bond

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