Short answers, pulled from the story.
Ian Fleming created the name James Bond in 1953 by appropriating it from an American ornithologist named James Bond who wrote Birds of the West Indies. Fleming chose the dullest and plainest-sounding name he could find to create a neutral figure for his protagonist.
Ian Fleming assigned the code number 007 to the character in reference to the breaking of the German diplomatic code during the First World War. The number specifically references the Zimmermann Telegram which was coded 0075 and helped lead the United States into the war.
James Bond owned a supercharged 1930 Bentley 4½ Litre which was wrecked in May 1954 during the events of Moonraker. He subsequently purchased a Bentley Mark VI drophead coupé before replacing it with a Bentley R-Type Continental in Thunderball.
John Gardner wrote fourteen novels and two novelizations between 1981 and 1996 to update Bond for the 1980s. He linked Bond to the Fleming novels rather than the film incarnations and gave the character a more health-conscious demeanor.
CBS broadcast the first television adaptation of James Bond on the 21st of October 1954 as a one-hour television adventure. Barry Nelson played the character in the adaptation which was changed to Card Sense Jimmy Bond an American agent working for Combined Intelligence.
Twenty-seven Bond films have been released to date and the character has been adapted into comics and video games. Sean Connery was the first of seven actors to play Bond on the cinema screen in the 1962 film Dr. No.