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Bond by the numbers

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George Lazenby only got one shot to play James Bond because he passed on a 7-year contract–he thought that the emerging counterculture of the era meant the movie franchise was passe. Well, obviously…

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Academy-award winning Bond Girls in the movie canon: Halle Berry and Kim Basinger. Also the number of times Timothy Dalton starred as 007.

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Women undeniably killed by James Bond: Naomi in The Spy Who Loved Me, Xenia in Goldeneye, and Elektra in The World Is Not Enough. 04

Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig have four James Bond movies each to date.

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The five actors who played

Q: Peter Burton, Demond Llewelyn, Alec McCowen, Monty Python’s John Cleese, and Parfum’s Ben Whishaw.

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Sean Connery, first onscreen Bond of the Eon 007-era, had five consecutive movies plus one more in 1971 (Diamonds Are Forever). He would have had seven, but the movie Never Say Never Again does not belong to the Eonproduced James Bond films. 07

Number of Roger Moore films–the one with the most James Bond roles in Eon-produced James Bond movies.

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US Billboard Peak ranking of these OSTs: Goldfinger (Shirley Bassey), Die Another Day (Madonna), and Skyfall (Adele).

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Total number of times Italy and France were featured as Bond’s destination, with Italy having four (For Your Eyes Only, Casino Royale, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker) and France having five (Thunderball, Diamonds are Forever, Moonraker, A View to Kill, and Goldeneye).

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Most number of times one sole actor in the movie series said “Bond. James Bond.” It was by Roger Moore. 11

110 minutes was the running time of the first Eon-produced Bond film, Dr. No, which is three minutes longer than Quantum Solace (shortest with 107 minutes).

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Number of average alcohol units intake for all 23 Bond movies. Highest was in Casino Royale with 26 units, and lowest is in License To Kill with four units.

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Car brands used by James Bond: Sunbeam, Land Rover, Citroen, Toyota, AMC, GM, MP Lafer, Lotus, Renault, Bentley, BMW, Ford, and Aston Martin.

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Asian countries visited by James Bond: Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Lebanon, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, China-PRC, Hong Kong-SAR, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, and North Korea.

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Number of women kissed by Roger Moore as James Bond, arguably the most elegant British gentleman, who perfected the comic and the action in the Bond franchise.

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Number of American Bond Girls out of the 75 total: Tiffany Case, Plenty O’Toole, Bambi, Thumper, Rosie Carver, Anya Amasova, Holly Goodhead, Bibi Dahl, Stacey Sutton, Linda, Pam Bouvier, Lupe Lamora, Paris Carver, Dr. Christmas Jones, and Jinx. If you’re the miserly type who only buys a game if it can guarantee 10 or more hours of playtime, Fallout 4 is the game for you: You can easily spend a hundred hours running around its postapocalyptic wasteland. What is there to do? Quite a lot, sir.

Build your own settlement ala Minecraft crossed with SimCity

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Product when you multiply the digits in the time signature (4/4) of the James Bond original soundtrack, which was composed by Monty Norman. 17

1.78 meters–Daniel Craig’s height. He happens to be the shortest among the James Bonds.

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Total number of women kissed by Sean Connery as James Bond.

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Vodka martinis imbibed in the whole duration of the Bond flicks. Specifically, vodka martinis—but he also knows his whiskey, Bollinger, Tattinger, Raki, Mint Julep, Mojito, Smirnoff, Suntory, Theotaki Aspro, and so many more!

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21st of July 2005, “shaken, not stirred” ranked 90 on a list of best movie quotes by the American Film Institute. On the 21st of June 1962, the Bond theme song was recorded.

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Caliber-.22 AR-7 with infrared telescope was among James Bond’s gadgets (From Russia With Love). And don’t we love his myriad of gadgets?

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23rd Bond film–Skyfall–is the highest grossing Bond film of all time.

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Spectre is the longest James Bond movie with a running time of two hours and 40 minutes. Customize your suit of power armor ala modifying a car

Hot rod your guns with over 700 possible mods

Endlessly hunt for loot to craft objects because everything has a purpose (unlike all those spoons and forks you pick up in Skyrim)

Unlock all 275 character perks because there is no maximum player level

Recruit all of 12 possible companions. Have sex with some of them

Make questionable moral decisions with the Mass Effectesque dialogue system

Just mess around in general because the game simply goes on after you beat the main story!