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17. Where did Ian Fleming, the journalist who came up with the “James Bond” spy novels get the idea for his hero’s name?
- The name of his paternal grandfather
- It was the name of a man he served with in the navy
- A nickname his wife called him by
- The name of a bird expert from a book he was reading
- Ian Fleming got the inspiration for the name of his main character from the author of a book about Caribbean birds. He later told the ornithologist’s wife that the name appeared “masculine and Anglo-Saxon.”