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Million-dollar crater, / Steel rocket dome, / Hidden in a volcano!
schopenhauer Hugo Drax took villainy to outer space, planning to poison humanity from a stealth space station.
schopenhauer Karl Stromberg sought to destroy human civilization to build a new society beneath the ocean.
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Real-life island: Hashima Island, the inspiration for Silva's lair in *Skyfall*, was a real coal mining town abandoned in 1974.
A wild animal's resting place, or a secure hideout used by a person seeking concealment. In 1967, Ernst Stavro Blofeld launched spacecraft interception missions from a hollowed volcano in Japan.
In the 1979 film *Moonraker*, how does Hugo Drax's space station avoid detection by Earth's defense systems?
Which real-life abandoned island served as the visual inspiration for Raoul Silva's cyber-fortress in *Skyfall*?
What was Karl Stromberg's ultimate goal for human civilization in *The Spy Who Loved Me*?
What is the name of Karl Stromberg's submersible underwater fortress in the 1977 film *The Spy Who Loved Me*?
Which famous film studio stage was specifically built to house Karl Stromberg's submarine sets in 1976?
In the 2012 film *Skyfall*, what was Raoul Silva's former profession before becoming a cyber-terrorist?
In the 1979 film *Moonraker*, what natural source does Hugo Drax use to create his deadly nerve gas?
How much did the massive volcano crater set for the 1967 film *You Only Live Twice* cost to build?