Origins Quiz — Saturday, October 17, 2026

What villain did Ian Fleming name after a Hungarian-born modernist architect, after a conversation on a golf course with the man's cousin? Fleming had objected to the cottages the architect demolished for his Hampstead house. When the architect consulted lawyers in 1959, Fleming offered to rename the character Goldprick; the publisher paid costs and sent six copies.

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