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? © Hergé-Moulinsart 2020 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 ? © Hergé-Moulinsart 2020 Destination Moon Cigars of the Pharaoh The Shooting Star The Calculus Affair 1• Soviets 13• Tintin in the Land of the Soviets 2• Archibald 14• The Calculus Affair 3• Marlinspike Hall 15• Tintin and the Picaros 4• Blistering barnacles 16. Flight 714 5• Chang Chong-chen 17• The Red Sea Sharks 6• Rastapopoulos 18• Someone who breaks religious objects © Hergé-Moulinsart 2020 7• Hergé 19. A ghostly substance 8• Thompson and Thomson 20• A nonsense language 9• His Pendulum 21• A Turkish soldier 10• Syldavia 22• 421 11• Whisky 23• 26 Labrador Road 12• Bianca Castafiore 24. Reporter 25. Sir Francis Haddock TINTIN FOR BEGINNERS FOR TINTIN = 25 THAN LESS RESULTS TINTIN FANS TINTIN = 25 – 30 BETWEEN RESULTS RESULTS BETWEEN 40 – 30 = TINTINOPHILES = 30 – 40 BETWEEN RESULTS RESULTS BETWEEN 50 – 40 = TINTINOLOGIST = 40 – 50 BETWEEN RESULTS 421 Lord Admiral Haddock Admiral Lord 401 Sir Francis Hardrock Francis Sir 412 Sir Francis Haddock Francis Sir phone number? phone Who was Haddock’s ancestor? Haddock’s was Who 25. digit three Hall’s Marlinspike is What 22• Explorer A special type of bubble gum bubble of type special A Reporter A Turkish soldier Turkish A Detective A rocket launcher rocket A What is Tintin’s job? Tintin’s is What 24. and only one is correct is one only and false are two meanings, three given have we 26 Lazybones Road Road Lazybones 26 “Bashi-Bazouk”, insult the For 21• 26 Labrador Road Labrador 26 26 Lambert Road Lambert 26 A noise a turkey makes turkey a noise A What is Tintin’s address? Tintin’s is What • 23 To enjoy eating mud eating enjoy To A nonsense language nonsense A and only one is correct is one only and false are two meanings, three given have we “Gobbledegook”, insult the For 20• Someone with a thin body and long arms long and body thin a with Someone A microscopic substance microscopic A A ghostly substance ghostly A is correct is one only and false are two meanings, three For the insult “Ectoplasm”, we have given given have we “Ectoplasm”, insult the For 19•.