FLIGHT 878

British Airways flight to St. Petersburg, taken by James Bond (PIERCE BROSNAN) in GoldenEye.

BIRDS OF THE WEST INDIES

A book that became one of author Ian Fleming’s primary reference guides during his vacations in Jamaica. In 1952, searching for a name with which to christen the hero of his new novel, Fleming noticed the simple name of the book’s author, ornithologist James Bond.

1965 SILVER LINCOLN CONTINENTAL

The luxury car, with a white landau top, that James Bond (SEAN CONNERY) drives to Emilio Largo's (ADOLFO CELI) Palmyra estate, in Thunderball.

SHOLOMIR, JACK

South African stuntman who appeared in more than 30 motion pictures, including three James Bonds films. Specializing in car stunts, he worked on From Russia with Love, Diamonds Are Forever, and Octopussy.

LES AMBASSADEURS

A gaming club in London frequented by James Bond. Here Sean Connery was introduced as James Bond in Dr. No.

BISSET, JACQUELINE

British actress who portrayed seductive Miss Goodthighs in the 1967 spoof of Casino Royale—one of her first films. She's the one who slips Evelyn Tremble/James Bond (PETER SELLERS) a Mickey Finn

CAPLAN, PAULA

Assistant to James Bond (Sean Connery) in Nassau, portrayed by Martine Beswick in Thunderball. She is later captured in her hotel room by Fiona Volpe (Luciana Paluzzi) and her SPECTRE thugs, drugged, and brought to the Palmyra estate of Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi).

2.5 ON THE RICHTER SCALE

Magnitude of the tremor felt by James Bond (ROGER MOORE) at Stacey Sutton's (TANYA ROBERTS) northern California mansion in A View to a Kill. According to her computer, the epicenter is located near Max Zorin's

FOOL, THE

A tarot card selected by James Bond (Roger Moore) from the deck offered by Solitaire (Jane Seymour) in Live and Let Die. After the selection, she replies, “You have found yourself.”

LH 450

Lufthansa Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Los Angeles that carries James Bond (SEAN CONNERY), Tiffany case (JILL ST. JOHN), Mr. Wint (BRUCE GLOVER), Mr. Kidd (PUTTER SMITH), and the body of Peter Franks (JOE ROBINSON), along with

SIBERIA

Ice-bound region in the Soviet Union where James Bond (ROGER MOORE) finds the dead body of 003, in A View to a Kill. Recovering a microchip stolen from the Russians, Bond prepares to return to a camouflaged minilaunch piloted by fellow agent

BLACK ROSE

Unusual flower growing in Sir James Bond's (DAVID NIVEN) garden in Casino Royale. It's destroyed, along with Bond's manor house by M (JOHN HUSTON), who feels that

2:44 P.M.

The time on James Bond's (ROGER MOORE) watch when he's traveling in the company of a slow-moving, fat West German family in Octopussy. Stuck in their white Volkswagen, Bond keeps thinking of the A-bomb

KISCH

One of Auric Goldfinger’s henchmen, portrayed by Michael Mellinger in Goldfinger. It’s Kisch who handcuffs James Bond (Sean Connery) to the ticking atomic device placed inside Fort Knox.

OCEAN LINER

The method by which James Bond (SEAN CONNERY) and Tiffany Case (JILL ST. JOHN) return to Europe in Diamonds Are Forever. Thankful billionaire Willard Whyte (JIMMY DEAN) tells 007 that if he's having a good time, just let Whyte know,

SIERRA

James Bond's (SEAN CONNERY) South American contact, portrayed by Raymond Young, in the Goldfinger teaser. He's the one who tells Bond not to stick around after Mr. Ramirez's heroin operation is destroyed.

KISS KISS CLUB

An outdoor nightclub in Nassau, Bahamas, that becomes a temporary shelter for a wounded James Bond (Sean Connery) in Thunderball.

OCTOPUSSY

The title character in the thirteenth James Bond film produced by Albert R. Broccoli. As portrayed by Maud Adams, Octopussy is the fabulously wealthy and resourceful leader of the Octopus Cult, a sect of acrobatic lady smugglers who live on a secluded island in the middle of Lake Pichola in Udaipur, India.

SIGNATURE GUN

Custom-built sniper rifle supplied to James Bond (Timothy Dalton) by Q (Desmond Llewelyn) in Licence to Kill. Made up of seemingly innocuous Hasselblad camera parts, the gun fires high-velocity .220 caliber shells and is equipped with an optical palm reader matched to the authorized user’s right handprint.

KISSY

Lovely Japanese intelligence agent turned pearl diver portrayed by Mie Hama in You Only Live Twice. To make sure that James Bond (Sean Connery) has credible cover as an Ama Island boatman, she receives orders from Japanese Secret Service chief Tiger Tanaka (Tetsuro Tamba) to become 007’s bride in a mock ceremony.

BLANC DE BLANC

The French champagne ordered by James Bond (SEAN CONNERY) for himself and Tatiana Romanova (DANIELA BIANCHI) on the Orient Express in From Russia with Love.

KITZMILLER, JOHN

merican character actor who portrayed Quarrel, the Cayman Islander who helps James Bond (Sean Connery) in the first James Bond movie, Dr. No. Director Terence Young first saw Kitzmiller in director Luigi Zampa’s To Live in Peace (1947)

SIMMONS, BOB

Top British stunt coordinator and stuntman who not only doubled Sean Connery and Roger Moore but was also responsible for the action sequences in many James Bond films. In a sense, Simmons put the fists into producer Cubby Broccoli’s two-fisted approach to Ian Fleming’s secret agent.

GREENWALT, DR. DAVE

American GPS expert, portrayed by COLIN STINTON, who is brought in to help James Bond thwart billionaire media mogul Elliot Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies.

BLEEKER, MR.

New Orleans airport flight instructor in Live and Let Die whose appointment with student Mrs. Bell (RUTH KEMPF) is interrupted when James Bond (ROGER MOORE) commandeers the training plane.

20 PACES

The required distance before duelists James Bond (ROGER MOORE) and Francisco Scaramanga (CHRISTOPHER LEE) are allowed to turn and fire in The Man with the Golden Gun. Bond takes his paces, but when he turns, Scaramanga has disappeared.

LINDA

Jet-setter bathing beauty, portrayed by shapely Kell Tyler in The Living Daylights teaser, who, while speaking to her friend Margo, bemoans the scarcity of real men until James Bond (TIMOTHY DALTON) "drops" onto her yacht.

SIMON, CARLY

Soulful pop singer-songwriter and Academy Award winner who sang one of the best James Bond theme songs, “Nobody Does It Better” from The Spy Who Loved Me. A native New Yorker who spawned decades of speculation with her number-one hit “You’re So Vain,”

20 YEARS TO LIFE

The possible sentence awaiting Tiffany Case (JILL ST. JOHN) for smuggling, in Diamonds Are Forever. For cooperating, however, she gets an all-expenses-paid ocean cruise to England with James Bond (SEAN CONNERY).

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