Villains of the Bond Novels

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1. James Bond requires your help. He has only this description to go on: "The general effect of the face - the riot of red-brown hair, the powerful nose and jaw, the florid skin - was flamboyant. It put Bond in mind of a ring-master at a circus. The contrasting sharpness and coldness of the left eye supported the likeness." Which villain is the Bond creator author Ian Fleming describing here? Red Donovan Emilio Largo Ernst Blofeld Hugo Drax

2. We cannot warn Bond but this villainous character has been ordered to assassinate him. A daily challenge for the British secret agent you might suppose. From this description can you tell me who is being described? "...was the result of a midnight union between a German professional weight-lifter and a Southern Irish waitress. The union lasted for a quarter of an hour on the damp grass behind a circus tent outside Belfast. Afterwards the father gave the mother half a crown and the mother walked happily home to her bed in the kitchen of a café near the railway station. When the baby was expected, she went to live with an aunt in the small village of Aughmacloy that straddles the border, and there, six months later, she died of puerperal fever shortly after giving birth to a twelve-pound boy." Emilio Largo Red Grant Donovan Ernst Blofeld Le Chiffre

3. This female began her life in the Bond novel as a Harlem gangster with her own gang. She underwent a conversion at the hands of Bond and eventually helped him with his endeavours. According to the main villain of the book; "The team was unsuccessful, so she trained them as burglars, at burglars. It grew into a gang of outstanding ruthlessness. It is a Lesbian organization which now calls itself ‘The Cement Mixers’." Who is being described here? Tiffany Case Irma Bunt Rosa Klebb Pussy Galore

4. One of Bond's most challenging assignments pitted him against this character described here by Bond's Chief of Staff who was briefing Bond at the start of this mission: "Now I see in this dreadful experience a possible reason for the transformation of [...] into the most vicious gunman of recent years. In him was, I believe, born on that day a cold-blooded desire to avenge himself on all humanity. That the elephant had run amok and trampled many innocent people, that the man truly responsible was his handler and that the police were only doing their duty, would be, psychopathologically, either forgotten or deliberately suppressed by a youth of hot-blooded stock whose subconscious had been deeply lacerated." Which Bond villain is the subject of this report? Scaramanga Kidd Wint Emilio Largo

5. Name the Bond villain also known as 'the Number' or 'the Cipher' who has a penchant for baccarat and inventive makeshift torture, and who had Bond at his mercy before the intervention of an agent of Smersh who inadvertently saved Bond's life. Goldfinger Drax Emilio Largo Le Chiffre

6. For this assignment Bond was ordered to infiltrate a diamond smuggling 'pipeline' and follow it as far as possible to discover the brains behind the operation. He encountered two villains who sought to physically dissuade him. One of them owned a ghost town called 'Spectreville'. What were they called? Witt and Kidd Scaramanga and Oddjob Blofeld and Largo Spang and Spang

7. This little lady, who was senior Russian spy, very nearly did for Bond thanks to her needlework. Who am I describing? Irma Bunt Rosa Klebb Honey Rider Pussy Galore

8. This villain was discomfited by Bond through a Canasta ploy and during a very competitively played golf game. He was distracted by brightly and valuably painted females. What was his name? Count Lippe Auric Goldfinger Hugo Drax Le Chiffre

9. These villains all appeared in this novel; Emilio Largo, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Count Lippe and Guiseppe Petachi. What was it called? Answer: (One Word, Think of the British Lottery.)

10. In the novel 'You Only Live Twice' Ernst Blofeld reappears in disguise. What was the name he used until unmasked by James Bond? Tiger Tanaka Dr Guntrun Shatterhand Irma Bunt Dikko Henderson