Die Hard with a Vengeance down to his foreign hideaway (this version is very similar to Alec Guinness' character's situation in the British heist film "The Lavender Hill Mob" made some 45 years earlier in which the stolen gold was turned into Eiffel Tower paperweights). McClane is keen to take his problems out on Simon, who he invites to play a game called "McClane Says". This involves a form of Russian roulette with a small Chinese rocket launcher that has had the sights removed, meaning it is impossible to determine which end is which. McClane then asks Simon some riddles similar to the ones he
Gold reserves of the United Kingdom Gold reserves of the United Kingdom The gold reserve of the United Kingdom is the amount of gold kept by Bank of England as a store of value of part of the United Kingdom's wealth. Leftover from the Gold Standard which the country abandoned in 1931 it is the 17th largest central bank reserve in the world with 310.29 metric tonnes of gold bars. As of 2017 the value of the gold is estimated to be worth £200.5 billion ($250.5 billion . Prior to Britain's declaration of war in September 1939 vast amounts of gold were being shipped across the