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1.	While Bond is busy "on assignment", a Moonraker is stolen while being transported from the United States to Britain. What is a Moonraker?
		a satellite
		a submarine
		a nuclear missile
		a space shuttle

2.	Bond is called in to investigate the Moonraker's disappearance. What excuse does he give Moneypenny for being late?
		He skied over a cliff
		He fell out of a cable car and down a mountain
		He fell out of an airplane without a parachute
		He fell out of your dreams and into your car

3.	Ooops! In the opening sequence, Jaws pulls his rip cord too harshly and plummets to the earth. But he survives by landing on what?
		a large haystack
		a circus tent
		a marshmallow factory
		a mattress store

4.	Bond travels to California to meet the maker of the Moonraker, Hugo Drax, who lives in a chateau, transported from France brick by brick. What other piece of French architecture is he said to own?
		the Louvre
		half the Champs-Elysees
		the Georges Cinq
		the Eiffel Tower

5.	What does Drax consider to be England's one indisputable contribution to Western civilization?
		afternoon tea
		steak and kidney pie
		warm beer
		cricket

6.	What is Bond's first observation of NASA scientist Dr. Goodhead?
		she's very intelligent
		she's very beautiful
		she has a very funny name
		she's a woman

7.	Bond takes a centrifuge chamber for a spin. Dr Goodhead says "Come on, Mr Bond. A seventy year old can take three G's". Bond's reply?
		"Trouble is, there's never a seventy year old around when you need one."
		"Oh, I'm used to being strapped in like this."
		"I prefer to give rather than receive."
		"Funny you should mention that..."

8.	Bond has a cigarette case/X-ray machine for cracking safes. What other purpose does 007 use it for?
		seeing if anyone is waiting for him outside Drax's study
		seeing if there is anything useful in Drax's desk drawers
		seeing Drax's airline tickets to see where he's headed next
		seeing through Corinne's nightgown

9.	After Bond leaves Drax's chateau, Drax has Corinne killed by...
		having one of his fellow grouse-hunters shoot her
		setting his Dobermans on her
		asking Jaws to put the bite on her
		setting off a bomb in her helicopter

10.	Bond travels to Venice on a lead. In Venice, Bond is equipped with a gondola that...
		can submerge for short periods
		launches torpedoes
		converts into a hovercraft
		he uses to cruise chicks

11.	Bond uncovers a secret laboratory in Drax's Venetian glass factory. The entry keypad chimes a set of notes made famous by:
		Star Wars
		Close Encounters of the Third Kind
		the Godfather
		the James Bond movies

12.	After Bond is done snooping around the glass factory, Chang attacks him with:
		throwing stars
		a samurai sword
		a wooden kendo sword
		nunchaku

13.	Chang is killed after Bond throws him:
		off the top of the Campanile
		off the roof of San Marco Basilica
		over the railing of the Rialto Bridge
		through the clock on St Mark's clocktower

14.	Bond runs into Dr. Goodhead in Venice and later drops by her hotel room uninvited. When he sees she has a bottle of Bollinger on ice, he says:
		"I trust the champagne is as chilled as your welcome."
		"Waiting for company?"
		"Do you want me to pop the cork?
		"If it's a '69 you were expecting me."

15.	Bond follows another lead, this time to Rio de Janeiro. What pick up line does he (successfully) use within five minutes of arriving at his hotel?
		"Why don't you show me the Sugar Loaf?"
		"Tall and tanned and young and lovely, I see."
		"How do you kill five hours in Rio if you don't samba?"
		"There's a carnival in my pants, and you're invited."

16.	Jaws' plan to kill Bond and Dr. Goodhead on the Sugar Loaf mountain cable car fails. But on the bright side:
		he's never smelled better
		he is noticed by a film director and starts an acting career
		he meets the girl of his dreams and falls in love
		he saves a bunch of money on his car insurance

17.	Dr. Goodhead is captured and Bond goes to MI6's Brazilian headquarters, which is located inside:
		a banana warehouse
		a monastery
		a coffee plantation
		the statue of Cristo Redentor on Corcovado

18.	Q's Latin American-themed workshop does not include which of the following experimental weapons?
		exploding bolas
		laser guns
		bikini garotte
		a model of a napping sombrero-wearing man that splits apart to reveal a Gatling gun

19.	Bond defies another attempt by Drax to plan an amusing death for him. Drax: "Why did you break off the encounter with my pet python?" Bond:
		"Oh, she was fine for a quick squeeze."
		"She thought she had me wrapped around her little finger."
		"I discovered he had a crush on me."
		"I thought it was a trouser snake."

20.	The launch site for Moonrakers Five and Six is hidden:
		inside a dormant volcano
		behind a waterfall
		under Drax's chateau
		in a ruined, ancient city

21.	Bond and Dr. Goodhead arrive at Drax's space station to discover he plans to kill everyone on Earth using nerve gas derived from:
		lizards
		orchids
		spiders
		trees

22.	In addition to metal teeth, it is also implied that Jaws has a metal:
		stomach
		skull
		heart
		crotch

23.	Drax is killed and as the space station starts to explode, Jaws reveals he can speak! What's his one line for the movie?
		"Oh, no."
		"Bond - thanks for everything."
		"Well, here's to us."
		"Oh, James!"

24.	Bond and Dr. Goodhead destroy the nerve gas globes, and find their post-world-saving activities rudely interrupted. Minister of Defence: "My God, what's Bond doing?" Q's reply?
		"We have liftoff, sir."
		"I believe it's an experiment NASA asked him to try."
		"I think he's attempting re-entry."
		"At least 5 G's, I should say."

25.	Bonus Question: In Ian Fleming's novel Moonraker, all the scientists working at Drax's facility must comply with what curious requirement?
		they must wear face-masks at all times
		they must answer to numbers, not to their own names
		they must shave their heads and grow different types of moustaches
		they may not wear anything underneath their lab coats