On Her Majesty's Secret Service was the one and only Bond film to feature George Lazenby.

Diamonds Are Forever was the last Bond film to feature Connery (not counting You Only Live Twice, which wasn't an "official" Bond film). Interestingly, Diamonds Are Forever came after On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Connery made several Bond films, Lazenby took over for one film, and then Connery returned for a last hoorah.

Billy Zane is the name I couldn't come up with.

Ah yeah I remember now, it's bolt who's the Bond genius

Yep, last one was On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

All 5 of you have made it through to the final round! Got a choice of 2 categories:

Novels
or
Michael Jackson

You can all confer to decide a category but once it's been chosen there is no conferring, gl!

I know minimal on Michael Jackson over and above what is ingested through regular media consumption. Just before my time.

Novels I think I'm good at, both modern and older.

I'm terrible at Novels, maybe eh at Jackson

Same

also, great job eb!

These both are categories where I'm likely to know like 5 or 6 of them.

But they'll be the same 5 or 6 as everyone else.

No preference, but I think we should go with whatever the person most knowledgeable in one of these domains is.

Once we do pick, the rest of us should YOLO the more difficult/iffy ones to take those off the board for the "expert".

I won't know any Michael Jackson stuff apart from the super obvious, most likely will be bad with novels as well.
Seems like we should take Novels and hope that either Zeus carries us or it randomly hits the sweet spot for one of us, it's a broad category.

I had a college roommate who was totally obsessed with Bond. Like, knew every line of dialogue from every film. We probably watched at least 1 Bond film on VHS every week for 2 years.

Leaning this way too.

MJ is higher average, lower variance.
Novels is lower average, higher variance.

There's no difference between 0/10 and 9/10.

I think novels is the way to go.

Sure. Why not.

Someone bold the choice once you've decided

Zeus, if you're still okay being the likely hero, go ahead and bold.

Zeus is also the first one who will have to answer so that works out great.

Novels

Lets do it

GL to us.

Name the 10 final novels in series of books (to clarify the Tenable tower will show 10 titles of books which are final novels of a series along with the year they were first published. We are looking for the name of the 10 authors of the books. This list refers to the last main book of the series)

Here are your clues:

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)
2. The Shepherd's Crown (2015)
3. Breaking Dawn (2008)
4. The Mirror and the Light (2020)
5. The Last Battle (1956)
6. Fifty Shades Freed (2012)
7. The Van (1991)
8. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972)
9. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (1975)
10. Five Are Together Again (1963)

Doctor Zeus to go first, then Booker, derwi, IRTM and eb in that order, gl!

Man, that's confusingly phrased. Your looking for the authors? I'm guessing no commentary?

Hilary Mantel (The Mirror and the Light)

lol blame the actual show that's how it was phrased yeah looking for the authors and no commentary (unless you're the last person standing)

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4. Hilary Mantel
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Booker up next!

I hate to take the easy one, but yikes, I can maybe guess at two others.

JK Rowling

****, that's commentary. I'm an idiot

EL James

Bloom? Lolme

Stephenie Meyer