Take the TINTIN TEST 2 POINTS PER CORRECT RESPONSE Answers (see last page)
5• Who is Tintin’s Chinese friend that he meets in The Blue Lotus? Mitsuhirato Wang Jen Ghie 1• Complete this title: Tintin in the land of the... Chong Chen-Chang Crab with the Golden Claws Chang Chong-chen Alph-Art Americans 6• Who is Tintin’s sworn enemy? Soviets Muller Allan 2• What is Captain Haddock’s first name? Colonel Sponz Richard Rastapopoulos Harold Archibald 7• What name is Georges Remi William (Tintin’s creator) better known as? Jacobs 3• What is the name of the residence Hergé that the Captain and Professor Calculus live in? De Moor The Labrador Hall Martin Marlinspike Hall Rackham Hall Martinspike Hall
4• What is Captain Haddock’s favourite expression? By Jove Blistering disorder Blurring Pineapple Blistering barnacles
8• Who are the two pompous and incompetent detectives who work for the police? Starksy and Hutch Hector and Alfred Alembick Thompson and Thomson Capone and Tapone
9• What is professor Calculus favourite device? 2020 © Hergé-Moulinsart His keyring rocket His pendulum His submarine His ultra sound machine 15• What was the last completed Tintin book ever published? Flight 714 Tintin and the Picaros Tintin and Alph-Art The Castafiore Emerald
16. Which is the only cover that shows 10• Which of the following is a fictional place Tintin holding a gun? in the world of Tintin? The Black Island Syldavia Flight 714 Albania Tintin in America Latvia Land of Black Gold Estonia 17• On which of these covers is Tintin wearing 11• What was Captain Archibald Haddock’s his traditional blue shirt and plus-four favourite drink? knickerbockers? Water The Broken Ear Sani-Cola The Shooting Star Whisky The Red Sea Sharks Wine The Blue Lotus
12• What was the name of the opera star 18• For the insult “iconoclast”, we have given who first appeared in King Ottokar’s Sceptre? three meanings, two are false and only one Bianca Castafiore is correct Pickford An Ice-cream-making machine Piquefort A moviestar’s jewellery box Irma Someone who breaks religious objects
13• What was the very first Tintin story? Tintin in America Tintin in Congo Tintin in the Land of the Soviets Destination Moon
14• In which story among others
was Professor Calculus kidnapped ? 2020 © Hergé-Moulinsart Destination Moon Cigars of the Pharaoh The Shooting Star The Calculus Affair 19• For the insult “Ectoplasm”, we have given three meanings, two are false and only one is correct A ghostly substance A microscopic substance Someone with a thin body and long arms
20• For the insult “Gobbledegook”, we have given three meanings, two are false and only one is correct A nonsense language To enjoy eating mud 23• What is Tintin’s address? A noise a turkey makes 26 Lambert Road 26 Labrador Road 21• For the insult “Bashi-Bazouk”, 26 Lazybones Road we have given three meanings, two are false and only one is correct 24. What is Tintin’s job? A rocket launcher Detective A Turkish soldier Reporter A special type of bubble gum Explorer 22• What is Marlinspike Hall’s three digit phone number? 25. Who was Haddock’s ancestor? 412 Sir Francis Haddock 401 Sir Francis Hardrock 421 Lord Admiral Haddock
RESULTS BETWEEN 50 – 40 = TINTINOLOGIST RESULTS BETWEEN 40 – 30 = TINTINOPHILES RESULTS BETWEEN 30 – 25 = TINTIN FANS
RESULTS LESS THAN 25 = TINTIN FOR BEGINNERS
Sir Francis Haddock Francis Sir 25.
Reporter 24. Bianca Castafiore Bianca 12•
26 Labrador Road Labrador 26 23• Whisky 11•
421 22• Syldavia 10•
A Turkish soldier Turkish A 21• His Pendulum His 9•
A nonsense language nonsense A 20• Thompson and Thomson and Thompson 8•
A ghostly substance ghostly A 19. Hergé 7•
© Hergé-Moulinsart 2020 © Hergé-Moulinsart Someone who breaks religious objects religious breaks who Someone 18• Rastapopoulos 6•
The Red Sea Sharks Sea Red The 17• Chang Chong-chen Chang 5•
Flight 714 Flight 16. Blistering barnacles Blistering 4•
Tintin and the Picaros the and Tintin 15• Marlinspike Hall Marlinspike 3•
The Calculus Affair Calculus The 14• Archibald 2•
Tintin in the Land of the Soviets the of Land the in Tintin 13• Soviets • 1