February 6th, 2006

No one got the last question!!


Answers for yesterday's questions are:

The book that is circled in black, is Tintin in congo, the second exhibit is a snapshot of the poster of the movie Tintin and th Lake of Sharks and the third exhibit is the Soviet crest for Tintin in Soviet. All the three books don't appear on the back cover of a regular Tintin book.

Here's today's question:

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1. Tintin usually wears brown Knickerbockers in all his books except one... he wears a pair of bellbottom trousers. Which book was this?

Hint: Think Revolution

February 3rd, 2006

Lets Make it slightly simpler and start putting Just one question everyday
Correct Entries:

1.Vernon Fernandez


Answers for yesterday's questions are:

1. The car shown in the panel belongs to Arturo Benedetto Giovanni Guiseppe Pietro Archangelo Alfredo Cartoffoli da Milano, the Italian driver
2. Ten Thousand Thundering Typhoons
3. Micheal Farr, a report with Reuters for number of years,who was given access to the vast archives of Herge, the creator of Tintin, has gone in detail into each of the 24 stories to have appeared so far and has even pin-pointed persons who inspired various characters in the cartoon series.
4. 26,Labrador Road

Here's today's question:

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February 2nd, 2006

Looks like people have decided to forget Tintin altogether :(

Correct Entries:

1.Vernon Fernandez
2.Souvik Banerjee

Lets hope people start getting interested pretty soon.

Answers for yesterday's questions are:

1. Sir Francis Haddock, Captain Haddock's ancestor
2. It is the greeting between Captain Haddock and Captain Chester when they meet in Iceland for refueling haddock's ship on the way to retrieving the shooting star. (Kind of complicated,eh?)
3. Astesix in Belgium
4. General Alcazar staged the coup in San Theodoros and overthrew General Tapioca. Tintin had insisted on a bloodless coup. The capital of San Theodoros was called Tapiocapolis during Tapioca's rule and its name was changed to Alcazarpolis. The poster advertised the yearend carnival
Here are today's questions :

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Captain Haddock

1. Connect :
Arturo Benedetto Giovanni Guiseppe Pietro Archangelo Alfredo Cartoffoli da Milano
with this picture



Hint : Haddock has nothing to do the other thing(s) in the snap is more important

2. Easy one: "Billions and billions of blue blistering barnacles", give me the other famous expression used by Captain Haddock. I want the exact Phrase.

Now the general questions :

3. This Tintin book might not be very famous yet... and anyone can tell that Herge did not write this one. Who did? Add on question: What is it about?



4. What was Tintin's adress before he shifted permanently to Marlinspike Hall?


Thats all for the day.... Do mail in the answers.