KRONSTEEN

(a.k.a. Number 5): SPECTRE’s director of planning, portrayed by Vladek Sheybal in From Russia with Love. Working under Blofeld (an uncredited Anthony Dawson), this sleepy-eyed nemesis plans SPECTRE’s revenge against James Bond (Sean Connery) for killing their operative Dr. No.

FRANCO

James Bond's (ROGER MOORE) Venice gondolier in Moonraker who's knifed by one of hoodlums (CLAUDE CARLIEZ) during the canal chase.

OPERATION BEDLAM

The British Secret Service code name for the Blofeld search in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. The worldwide hunt for the missing head of SPECTRE, last seen disappearing into the interior of his volcano rocket base in You Only Live Twice, is led by his most ardent foe: James Bond (George Lazenby).

I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE TO PUT THAT

Miss Moneypenny’s (SAMANTHA BOND) comment when James Bond (PIERCE BROSNAN) hands her the cigar he received from the Cigar Girl (MARIA GRAZIA CUCINOTTA) in The World Is Not Enough.

STUFFED SHEEP’S HEAD

The perfectly awful entree served by Kamal Khan (Louis Jourdan) to James Bond (Roger Moore) at his Monsoon Palace in Udaipur, India, in Octopussy.

I’LL BE RIGHT BACK

What Paris Carver (TERI HATCHER) in Tomorrow Never Dies says is the last thing she heard from James Bond (PIERCE BROSNAN) when they were originally seeing each other years ago.

CHECKPOINT CHARLIE

Famous German border crossing-point, featured in Octopussy, where James Bond (ROGER MOORE) takes his leave of M (ROBERT BROWN) and enters East Germany. Posing as Charles Morton,

OPENING-TITLES SONGS AND THE BILLBOARD HOT 100

When Duran Duran’s title song for A View to a Kill hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top 100 in July 1985, it was the first time a James Bond song hit the number one spot. Here’s the record thus far of the Bond songs that have made the Top 100 singles chart.

CASINO ROYALE (CBS, 1954)

TV adaptation of Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel, which aired at 8:30 pm EST on Thursday, October 21, 1954, as the third live one-hour episode of CBS’s Climax Mystery Theater anthology series.

SMYTHE, MAJOR DEXTER

Ex-British army officer and Secret Service agent who is the father of Octopussy (MAUD ADAMS) in the 13th James Bond movie. During the Korean War, Smythe stole a cache of Chinese gold from the North Koreans, murdered his guide, and disappeared,

CASINO ROYALE (SONY/MGM, 2006)

The twenty-first film in the Eon Productions James Bond series. US release date: November 17, 2006. Budget: $150 million. Worldwide box office gross: $594.4 million (US gross: $167.4 million; international gross: $427.1 million). Running time: 144 minutes.

OPERATION TROVE

Mission assigned to James Bond (Roger Moore) in Octopussy. He’s ordered by M (Robert Brown) to discover who’s selling a priceless Fabergé egg, a fake of which was stolen by 009 (Andy Bradford) in East Berlin before he was murdered.

CHEVRON OIL SIGN

One of the casualties of James Bond's (ROGER MOORE) madcap hook-and-ladder fire truck chase through San Francisco in A View to a Kill.

OPERATION UNDERTOW

Mission assigned to James Bond (Roger Moore) in For Your Eyes Only. He’s sent to recover the ATAC (Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator) from the sunken hulk of the surveillance ship St. Georges.

XT-7B

Designation of the jet-propelled flying platforms utilized by James Bond (Sean Connery) and Felix Leiter (Bernie Casey) in Never Say Never Again. Launched via a US nuclear submarine’s Polaris missile tubes, the hovering platforms transport Bond and Leiter to the mainland

ISTANBUL

Largest city in Turkey and headquarters of the British Secret Service’s Station T–Turkey in From Russia with Love. It is in this city on the Bosphorus strait that SPECTRE initiates its plan to steal a Russian Lektor decoding machine and humiliate and murder James Bond (Sean Connery).

PINEWOOD STUDIOS

Production studio outside London that has been the base of operations for nearly every James Bond film from Dr. No. to the present day.

SOLAR POWER

An alternative energy system that is strongly featured in the Richard Maibaum/Tom Mankiewicz script for The Man with the Golden Gun. Introduced by Maibaum, it replaced a running duel-type story between James Bond and $1 million-a-shot assassin Francisco Scaramanga that was the center of Mankiewicz's early drafts.

“SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED”

The martini order famously preferred by James Bond throughout the 007 series. It’s the basis for one of the greatest bloopers in all the films

ORDER OF LENIN

Prestigious Soviet medal awarded to James Bond (ROGER MOORE) for liquidating Max Zorin (CHRISTOPHER WALKEN) and ending his nefarious plot to monopolize the world's supply of microchips, in A View to a Kill.

SOLAR-POWERED LASER CANNON

A weapon used by Scaramanga (CHRISTOPHER LEE) to destroy James Bond's (ROGER MOORE) seaplane in The Man with the Golden Gun.

CHIFFRE, LE

Soviet master spy and obsessed gambler, created by Ian Fleming as the first Bond villain in his novel “Casino Royale”. He’s been portrayed in various permutations in three James Bond films. Le Chiffre’s name comes from the French word meaning “cipher” or “number.”

SPECTRE

The Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion, a huge international criminal organization headed by Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and James Bond’s principal adversaries in a dozen Bond films and counting.

SOLERO

The sherry being served at dinner to diamond broker Sir Donald Munger (LAURENCE NAISMITH), James Bond (SEAN CONNERY), and M (BERNARD LEE) in Diamonds Are Forever. When Bond identifies it as a ‘51, M counters that sherries do not have years.

“THAT’S IT . . .”

The first line of dialogue ever uttered in an Eon Productions James Bond movie, from the first scene in Dr. No. It’s uttered by MI6 operative John Strangways (Tim Moxon) as he finishes a hand of bridge.

35,000 FEET

The altitude of Goldfinger's (GERT FRÖBE) private Lockheed Jetstar when James Bond (SEAN CONNERY) awakens and is greeted by Pussy Galore (HONOR BLACKMAN). The jet is traveling southwest over Newfoundland, 55 minutes from its destination, en route from Switzerland to Friendship Airport, Baltimore.

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (United Artists, 1963)

The second James Bond film produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. US release date: April 8, 1964. Budget: $2.2 million. Worldwide box office gross: $78.9 million.

VESPER

The password that James Bond (Daniel Craig) inputs into the encrypted server of Basel Bank representative Mr. Mendel (Ludger Pistor) before the Texas hold’em tournament in Casino Royale/em>.

3549-WUU

The license plate of James Bond's (TIMOTHY DALTON) new trick Aston Martin in The Living Daylights.

5

Time left on the countdown panel when James Bond (SEAN CONNERY) triggers the SPECTRE Intruder rocket's self-destruct mechanism in You Only Live Twice. If Bond fails,

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