The Bond Girl Trivia thread

[taipan]

IIRC sorrectly there were 14 books. Can we match the girl to the book?

1. Doctor No. Honey Ryder
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[Brass Monkey]

No we can't ye sad f*cky.

[Zat]

Bond Books written by Fleming (I don't count the John Stanley Gardner or Kingsley Amis(?) efforts.) in no aprticular order.

Novels:

Casino Royale - Vesper Lynd
Live and Let Die
Moonraker
Diamonds are Forever
From Russia with Love
Dr. No - Honeychile Rider
Goldfinger
Thunderball
The Spy Who Loved Me
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
You Only Live Twice
The Man With the Golden Gun

Short story compilations:
For Your Eyes Only, which included

For Your Eyes Only
From A View To Kill
Quantum of Solace
Risico
The Hildebrand Rarity

Octopussy and The Living Daylights, which included

Octopussy
The Property Of A Lady
The Living Daylights

Additional short-story: 007 in New York

[taipan]

Thanks Zat, so 12 + 2 short story compiliations.

[Zat]

I'm a bit of a Bond geek, so can probably come up with most of the girls in a fairly short time.

[taipan]

Bond Books written by Fleming (I don't count the John Stanley Gardner or Kingsley Amis(?) efforts.) in no aprticular order.

Novels:

Casino Royale - Vesper Lynd
Live and Let Die
Moonraker
Diamonds are Forever - Tiffany Case
From Russia with Love
Dr. No - Honeychile Rider
Goldfinger - Pussy Galore
Thunderball
The Spy Who Loved Me
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
You Only Live Twice
The Man With the Golden Gun

Short story compilations:
For Your Eyes Only, which included

For Your Eyes Only
From A View To Kill
Quantum of Solace
Risico
The Hildebrand Rarity

Octopussy and The Living Daylights, which included

Octopussy
The Property Of A Lady
The Living Daylights

Additional short-story: 007 in New York

[Zat]

The Man With the Golden Gun - Mary Goodnight, but they (probably) didn't shag.

[taipan]

The Man With the Golden Gun - Mary Goodnight, but they (probably) didn't shag.

Wasn't she originally his secretary? Took over from Loelia Posonby(sic)

[Zat]

The Man With the Golden Gun - Mary Goodnight, but they (probably) didn't shag.

Wasn't she originally his secretary? Took over from Loelia Posonby(sic)

She was the secretary to the 00 section, and there was some ribald discussion about which agent would bed her first.


Novels:

Casino Royale - Vesper Lynd
Live and Let Die - Solitaire (eventually)
Moonraker - Gala Brand
Diamonds are Forever - Tiffany Case
From Russia with Love - Tatiana Romanova
Dr. No - Honeychile Rider
Goldfinger - Jill Masterton
Thunderball - Domino Vitali
The Spy Who Loved Me
On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo (who became Tracy Bond, for all of 10 minutes)
You Only Live Twice
The Man With the Golden Gun - Mary Goodnight, but they (probably) didn't shag.

Short story compilations:
For Your Eyes Only, which included

For Your Eyes Only
From A View To Kill
Quantum of Solace
Risico
The Hildebrand Rarity

Octopussy and The Living Daylights, which included

Octopussy
The Property Of A Lady
The Living Daylights

Additional short-story: 007 in New York

[taipan]

Wasn't Thunderball Domino something?

Can add Jill Masterson and her sister to Goldfinger as well.

[Zat]

Can add Jill Masterson and her sister to Goldfinger as well.

OK, in the book, Pussy Galore was a lesbian, big time. Did she and Bond shag? I don't think so, but am happy to stand corrected.

Jill Masterton (Masterson in the movie) was a quick shag then wound up dead. And painted gold. Her sister (Tilly?) was another carpet-muncher in the book IIRC, she was very much taken with Pussy Galore, and again, I don't think she and Bond did the deed.

So, in the strictest sense of the definition, Jill would be the Bond 'Girl' because she played hide the sausage. The list has been amended above.

[taipan]

Can add Jill Masterson and her sister to Goldfinger as well.

OK, in the book, Pussy Galore was a lesbian, big time. Did she and Bond shag? I don't think so, but am happy to stand corrected.

Jill Masterton (Masterson in the movie) was a quick shag then wound up dead. And painted gold. Her sister (Tilly?) was another carpet-muncher in the book IIRC, she was very much taken with Pussy Galore, and again, I don't think she and Bond did the deed.

Funnily enough this might be one of the few books I have left. Will have a look over the weekend but I think you have nailed it.

[Zat]

Novels:

Casino Royale - Vesper Lynd
Live and Let Die - Solitaire (eventually)
Moonraker - Gala Brand
Diamonds are Forever - Tiffany Case
From Russia with Love - Tatiana Romanova
Dr. No - Honeychile Rider
Goldfinger - Jill Masterton
Thunderball - Domino Vitali
The Spy Who Loved Me - Viv Michel (book is nothing like the movie)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo (who became Tracy Bond, for all of 10 minutes)
You Only Live Twice
The Man With the Golden Gun - Mary Goodnight, but they (probably) didn't shag.

Short story compilations:
For Your Eyes Only, which included

For Your Eyes Only
From A View To Kill
Quantum of Solace
Risico
The Hildebrand Rarity

Octopussy and The Living Daylights, which included

Octopussy
The Property Of A Lady
The Living Daylights

Additional short-story: 007 in New York[/quote]

[Zat]

I'm struggling to remember any more, have flicked through a couple of books. Can't find the bloody short stories...

FWIW, wikipedia confirms what I've said above. It also, interestingly, quotes John Griswold's analysis, putting all the Bond stories in order:

Griswold's chronology of Bond's fictive world is as follows:

Casino Royale
Live and Let Die
Moonraker
Diamonds Are Forever
From Russia, With Love
Doctor No
Goldfinger
"Risico"
"Quantum of Solace"
"The Hildebrand Rarity"
"From a View to a Kill"
"For Your Eyes Only"
Thunderball
"Octopussy"
"The Living Daylights"
"The Property of a Lady"
Chapters 1–5 of The Spy Who Loved Me
Chapters 1–5 of On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Chapter 6 of The Spy Who Loved Me
"Reflections in a Carey Cadillac", retitled by editors as "Agent 007 in New York" and later as "007 in New York"
Chapters 7–15 of The Spy Who Loved Me
Chapters 6–20 of On Her Majesty's Secret Service
You Only Live Twice
The Man With the Golden Gun

[taipan]

The Spy who Loved Me was the weird one. Written in the first person by the girl.

Have gone totally blanlkon you only live twice, can't even recall the plot. Didn't he also marry Mary Goodnight?

[taipan]

Didn't John markham also write a few?

I can remember Colonel Sun. A pile of trash

[Zat]

All I remember from YOLT was the line 'You only live twice, once when you are born, and once when you look death in the face'

Happy to be corrected, but Bond only gets married once, in OHMSS, to Tracy. I think there's at least one,occasion in a book where he 'marries' as part of a cover, and think this may even happen more than once, at least once at gunpoint.

[taipan]

As I said used to have them all, but you know what happens to books.

I am trying to stretch back 30 years on some of this

[Zat]

Didn't John markham also write a few?

I can remember Colonel Sun. A pile of trash

There's a bunch of authors who've been given the keys to the kingdom, check the wikipedia article I linked to on p1 of the thread.

In You Only Live Twice, the girl was (and I cheated and looked it up on wiki) Kissy Suzuki, who becomes pregnant with Bond's child...

[Zat]

Novels:

Casino Royale - Vesper Lynd
Live and Let Die - Solitaire (eventually)
Moonraker - Gala Brand
Diamonds are Forever - Tiffany Case
From Russia with Love - Tatiana Romanova
Dr. No - Honeychile Rider
Goldfinger - Jill Masterton
Thunderball - Domino Vitali
The Spy Who Loved Me - Viv Michel (book is nothing like the movie)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo (who became Tracy Bond, for all of 10 minutes)
You Only Live Twice - Kissy Suzuki
The Man With the Golden Gun - Mary Goodnight, but they (probably) didn't shag.

Short story compilations:
For Your Eyes Only, which included

For Your Eyes Only
From A View To Kill
Quantum of Solace
Risico
The Hildebrand Rarity

Octopussy and The Living Daylights, which included

Octopussy
The Property Of A Lady
The Living Daylights

Additional short-story: 007 in New York

Can't be bothered looking up the girls for the short stories. It's Friday night and I need a drink.

[Brass Monkey]

Whoa, whoa... wait a minute. I think there's too much digression here. The crux of the issue is which Bond girl was the fittest? It's hard to choose really. I really liked that bird that Daniel Craig chopped - not the main lady, the hispanic one of that moody dude. But then, there's so many. Halle Berry's got a bod that just won't quit. And so on. What a difficult question. Bet you lot didn't think there'd be such a poser on here today.

[taipan]

Ursula Andress is always the first that comes to mind to me.

[Zat]

No we can't ye sad f*cky.

Followed later by:

The crux of the issue is which Bond girl was the fittest?

No, the issue was which Bond girl was in which book. Now feck off.

[holcs]

No we can't ye sad f*cky.

Followed later by:

The crux of the issue is which Bond girl was the fittest?

No, the issue was which Bond girl was in which book. Now feck off.

C'mon Zatty old boy!

It really is about which one is the fittest!!

[taipan]

Now that all the questions have been answered.....

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