The Adventures Of Tintin Quiz | Presented by Calcutta Tintin Fan Club | April 2019 | Quiz Master - Alekhya Chakrabarty, Trivia Tales

1. The Adventures of Tintin Quiz
12th April 2019
Presented by
Calcutta Tintin Fan Club

2. The teams

3. Tintin Quiz
12th April 2019
QM- Alekhya

4. Rounds of the quiz
• Rd1: Off the Mark!
• Rd2: Name
• Rd3: Place
• Rd4: Animal
• Rd5: Thing
• Rd 6: Captain Haddock’s Curses
• Rd 7: Thomson & Thompson’s Costumes

5. House Rules
Pounce and Bounce
There shall be 62 questions [ I think ] split into the 7 rounds
Pounce scores: +10/-10
To Pounce, attract the QM’s attention by
The decision of the QM shall be final

6. Rd 1: Off the Mark!
[Doesn’t pass]

7. Rd 1- Scoring
MCQ- 4 options to each question
• +20 if you get it right in the first attempt
• +15 if you get it right in the 2nd
• +10 if you get it right in the 3rd
• If you are still unlucky,+5 ; everyone shall be off the mark :)

8. Q1
Tintin in Tibet
Seven Crystal Balls
Tintin and the Picaros
Prisoners of the Sun

10. • Prisoners of the Sun

11. Q2
Tintin in Tibet
Cigars of the Pharaoh
Tintin and the Picaros
Destination Moon

13. • Tintin and the Picaros

14. Q3
Land of Black Gold
Red Rackham's Treasure
The Shooting Star
The Secret of the Unicorn

16. • The Shooting Star

17. Q4
Tintin in the Land of the Soviets
The Seven Crystal Balls
The Blue Lotus
Tintin and Alph-Art

19. • The 7 crystal balls

20. Q5
Tintin in the Congo
Flight 714 to Sydney
Calculus Affair
Prisoners of the Sun

22. • Tintin in the Congo

23. Q6
Tintin in Tibet
King Ottokar's Sceptre
Tintin in the Congo
Tintin in America

25. • Tintin in America

26. Q7
The Shooting Star
The Castafiore Emerald
Calculus Affair
The Black Island

28. • The Black Island

29. Q8
Tintin in Tibet
The Seven Crystal Balls
The Calculus Affair
Prisoners of the Sun

31. • The Calculus’ Affair

32. What’s the score

33. Rd 2: Name
[ Pounce and Bounce ]

34. Q1
• Who is the dictator of the fictional country of
Borduria, who never appears as a character
in the series, but is mentioned and shown in
statues and portraits in at least two of the
stories?
• His name was an allusion to the shape of his
facial hair and Bordurians were shown using
his name frequently while swearing.

36. • Marshall Kurvi-Tasch.
• Bordurians often swear ‘by the whiskers of Kurvi-Tasch’

37. Q2
• Which of his characters did Herge base
mostly on the Swiss Auguste Piccard,
and what change did he make to the
character’s appearance?

39. • Professor Calculus.
• He made Calculus much shorter than the towering Piccard, so that
he could fit into the frames of the comic strip

40. Q3
• The telephone number of
Marlinspike Hall, 431, is often
confused with the phone number
of which other establishment in
Marlinspike town?

42. • Cutts the Butcher, who appears in quite a few comics and is also
the president of the Music Society of Marlinspike

43. Q4
• In Castafiore Emerald, the missing
jewel was actually a gift from ..?

45. • The Maharaja of Gopal

46. Q5
• A strongly flavored, semisoft
variety of Italian milk cheese,
veined with mold.
• Which character shares his
name ( hint: known possibly by
his more famous name) with
this variety of cheese?

48. • di Gorgonzola [ also Rastapopoulos]

49. Q6
• Name the duo

51. • Dr Ridgewell | Chief Avakuki

52. Q7
• He had taken special care of some during Valentine’s day. His
business card said that he was a furniture dealer. He was
eventually convicted of tax evasion and spent time in Alcatraz.
• Who is he, and what is his unique Tintin connection?

54. • Al Capone.
• The only real life character to have appeared in a Tintin comic.

55. Q8
• Connect. [ non exhaustive list ]

57. • Names by which Bianca Castafiore calls Captain Haddock
Stopcock
Paddock
Hopscotch
Maggot
Hemlock

58. Q9
• "Do not be afraid, it's a very sharp blade.
Just one small quick peck, will sever your
neck!”- X
• Wang Chen-Yee (father)
• Mrs. Wang (mother)
• Chang Chong-Chen (adoptive brother)
• Id X, who shares his name with the organisation
whose logo is shown alongside?
• Hint: think closer home. Also topical

60. • Didi

61. What’s the score

62. Rd3: Place
[ Pounce and Bounce ]

63. Q1.Match the flags to the fictional
places from the world of Tintin
• Sao Rico | San Theodoros | Nuevo Rico
• San Theodoros(under Tapioca)| Syldavia | Borduria
A B C
D E F
No of
matches
Points
All 6 70
5 50
4 40
3 30
2 20
1 10

65. Answer
A B C
D E F

66. Q2
• Which fictional place from the world of Tintin gets its name from a
traditional type of garment, and cow?

68. • Gaipajama, India
• Cow’s Pyjamas

69. Q3
• Give me 2
words

71. • Loch Lomond

72. Q4
• With respect to places visited by Tintin across his
adventures, what specific bit about his travel
connects these 3 books ?

74. • Tintin visited India in these 3 books

75. Q5
• An International Meridian Conference was called in 1884 by U.S.
president Chester A. Arthur, and delegates there agreed to a prime
meridian through Greenwich, England, the one we use today. The
French lobbied hard for adoption of a Paris meridian and refused to
vote for Greenwich, stubbornly continuing to use their own line for
the next 25 years.
• What is this piece of trivia doing in a quiz on Tintin?

78. Q6
• With handwritten notes as ‘ first moonwalker after Tintin’ on it,
what was special about this French copy of the Explorers on the
Moon, that it fetched $132,400 at an auction ?

80. • The copy was signed by Hergé, Buzz Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong

81. Q7
• "You kind of can't grow up in New Zealand without having Tintin
become a really important part of your life," Y said in an interview.
• Id Y.

83. • Peter Jackson

84. Q8
• In Sonar Kella, Topshe is shown reading which book of Tintin in this
shot ?

86. • Land of Black Gold

87. What’s the score

88. Rd4:Animal
[ Pounce and Bounce ]

89. Q1
• What was the name of the tame gorilla that the forgers were using to
guard their establishment in the remote island of Kiltoch in the story,
Tintin and The Black Island?

91. • Ranko, who later goes to a zoo

92. Q2
• Tintin won many honours and awards in his career. Which special
award was he given by the King of Syldavia after Tintin had
recovered the royal sceptre and helped prevent a Bordurian-backed
coup?

94. • The Order of the Golden Pelican.
• Herge is portrayed as one of the guests at the ceremony, one of his
many appearances

95. Q3
• Connect the 2 images with a
pivotal animal character from
the world of Tintin.

97. • Iago, the vocal parakeet
• Iago, Character from Othello
• Langda Tyagi from Omkara, the remake of Othello, was based on
the character Iago from the play.

98. Q4
• What breeds are these 2?

100. • Snowy: Fox Terrier
• Brutus: Great Dane

101. Q5
• Which of
these
Bollywood
heroines
shares her
first name
with this
character?

103. • Ayesha

104. Q7
• When all of these failed, what eventually did the trick ?

106. • Haddock calling Calculus a Goat.
• “Acting like a Goat”
• Destination Moon

107. Q8
• Painful encounters of a certain kind.
• Connect [ non exhaustive ]

109. • Snowy’s tail trauma

110. What’s the score

111. Rd5:Thing
[ Pounce and Bounce ]

112. Q1
• Which esteemed organisation honored Captain Haddock just
before he left to recover the meteorite in Tintin and the Shooting
Star?

114. • The Society of Sober
Sailors.
• Haddock was their
president

115. Q2
• In the English version, which organisation does insurance
salesman Jolyon Wagg, often at the receiving end of Captain
Haddock’s temper, represent?

117. • The Rock Bottom
Insurance Company, it
was Assurances Mondass
in the original French
version

118. Q3
• In the Cigars of The Pharaoh, what was the poison with which drug
smugglers poisoned all opposition including the former Maharaja of
Gaipajama?

120. • The Rajaijah juice

121. Q4
• England featured in the one-off Test match in India in 1980 on their way
home after completing their tour of 1979/80 in Australia. The match was
arranged to mark the Golden Jubilee of the BCCI. The game that
began on February 15 was played at the Wankhede Stadium in
Mumbai with a rest day slated on the 4th day of the game.
• The game had an unusual rest day on what should have been the 2nd
day of the Test instead of the 4th day. The reason was ____ ,
something, which you can connect to prominent incident from a certain
Tintin story.
• Which story of Tintin, and which incident is common?

123. Solar Eclipse!
• The reason was a full Solar eclipse
which was supposed to be observed
on February 16. The BCCI did not
want the 50,000 spectators to
damage their eyes by looking into
the sun. The Solar eclipse was going
to be the first full eclipse in the 20th
century witnessed in the country.
The full Solar eclipse was observed
in Southern parts of India while an
87% eclipse was observed in
Mumbai.
• And of course, Prisoner of the Sun
had one

124. Q5
• If you search these 2
words on Google, this
is the first result which
comes up in India.
• What’s the 2 worded
search query / what’s
the name of this
eatery?

126. • Blisterning Barnacles

127. Q6
• Name this device invented by Professor Calculus which features in
The Castafiore Emerald.

129. • Super-Calcacolor

130. Q7
• Which airlines came up with this aeroplane by turning an Airbus A320-200 like this back in 2015 ?
• Bonus Points: What one worded name did the airline give to the plane?

132. Brussels Airlines | Rackham

133. Q8
• Leslie Simon’s 1947 book titled
‘German Research in World
War II’ served as the main
inspiration for Herge to create
something from the world of
Tintin.
• What specifically is being talked
about?

135. • The rocket of Destination
Moon
• The red-and-white
checkered pattern on
Hergé's rocket was based
upon an illustration of a V-2
which Hergé had come upon
in Leslie Simon's 1947 book
German Research in World
War II.

136. Q9
• If it is Ananda Publishers in Bengali, who is it in Hindi?

138. • Om Books
International
• Snowy: Natkhat
• Great Snakes: Baal ki khaal
• Thomson+Thompson:
Santu+Bantu
• Dus hazaar thadthadate
toofan

139. Q10
• Where would you find this?

142. What’s the score

143. Rd6
Captain Haddock’s Curses
[ Pounce and Bounce ]

144. Q1
• In mathematics, the _________ is the inverse function to
exponentiation (it is an example of a concave function).

146. • Logarithm

147. Q2
• X (Italian "little worms") is a traditional type of pasta round in section
similar to spaghetti.
• In Italy X is slightly thicker than spaghetti, but in the United States it is
slightly thinner.
• The term X is also used to describe various types of thin noodles in
Asia.

149. • Vermiceli

150. Q3
• Combine the 2 images to arrive at the answer
• 4 words

152. • Ten Thousand Thundering Typhoons

153. Q4
• X is a genus of dinosaurs whose
fossils were first discovered in
1877 by S. W. Williston. The
generic name, coined by Othniel
Charles Marsh in 1878, is a neo-
Latin term derived from Greek
for "double" and “beam", in
reference to the double-beamed
chevron bones located in the
underside of the tail, which were
then considered unique.

155. • Diplodocus

156. Q5
• It is a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal
endemic to eastern Australia, including
Tasmania. Together with the four species
of echidna, it is one of the five extant
species of monotremes, the only
mammals that lay eggs instead of giving
birth to live young.

158. • Duck Billed Platypus

159. Q6
• The 2 worded term literally translates to "one whose
head is turned, damaged head, crazy-head", roughly
"leaderless" or "disorderly") was an irregular soldier of
the Ottoman army, raised in times of war. These were
chiefly recruited from Albanians, Bulgarians, Kurds
and Circassians, but came from all ethnic groups.
• They were known for their bravery, but also as
undisciplined and notorious for savagery and looting.
• Unrestrained by the regulations that governed regular
soldiers in the army, they became notorious for preying
on civilians.

161. • Bashi Bazouk

162. What’s the score

163. Rd 7
Thomson & Thompson’s Costumes
[ Pounce and Bounce]

164. Q1

166. • Land of Black Gold

167. Q2

169. • The Blue Lotus

170. Q3

172. • Destination Moon

173. Q4

175. • Asterix in Belgium

176. Final scores!

177. That’s All Folks!
Thank you, Good night.