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James Bond has done ample traveling in most of films, including several trips to the United States. And while he’s not been seen visiting the White House in Washington, we imagine that the agent and our commander-in-chief would get along famously.
In today’s more-difficult-than-most lunchtime quiz, you’ll try to match up the titles of nine 007 films with the nine men who held the office of U.S. president when those movies were initially released. Good luck!
Take the quiz: Mr. Bond, meet Mr. President
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9/9. Incidentally, as Bond gets on the plane to meet the president at the end of Goldfinger, Felix Lighter tells him that he ordered liquor for 3 on the flight. Bond asks who the other two passengers are, and Lighter responds that there aren’t any other passengers. Ah, Bond. Liquor for three on a flight from Kentucky to Washington is some serious boozin’!
It’s those dadburned Bond marathons on TNT — they always seemed to coincide with finals week when I was in college.
reCaptcha — “spoils Lourdes” There are going to be some disappointed Catholics out there.
posted by Pete on 1-7-2009 at 12:29 pm
I sorta cheated. While I couldn’t say what year a particular Bond film was released, I pretty much know the order they were released in (as well as the order of the presidents). So, since Dr No was early 60’s, I assigned it to JFK, and the rest fell in place.
posted by Bertie on 1-7-2009 at 1:09 pm
Bertie – I tried that approach, but I had no idea what GoldenEye was! So I got the 1st one and the last 2 right and everything else was off. 3/9 :(
posted by Diana on 1-7-2009 at 1:29 pm
5/9. The only 2 I knew for certain were Goldeneye and Die Another Day as they were the two most current Bond Films on the list. For the other movies I just randomly assigned numbers. :)
posted by Nick on 1-7-2009 at 2:45 pm
Would’ve had 100%, but I forgot to fill one in after switching two answers. And it’s “Licence,” not “License” to kill.
posted by Dave on 1-7-2009 at 4:35 pm
You’re absolutely right, Dave; I didn’t use the proper British spelling… even though the president outranks Bond on the exchange. ;)
I’ve fixed that now. Thanks for the heads up!
posted by Sandy on 1-7-2009 at 10:45 pm
100%
@ Bertie, I did it the same way but I thought I might have screwed up and switched the two Timothy Dalton ones since I wasn’t sure which came first.
posted by Jenna on 1-16-2009 at 8:42 pm