Tintin et al

Colonel Jorgen

2006-11-05T11:45:00.000-08:00

The answer to last weeks question was Red Rakham's Treasure.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Please leave your answers as comments.The comments will be published a week after the question is posted - along with the correct answer.

Does Colonel Jurgen ring a bell? Which of the Tintin books would you have to read to meet this nefarious character? And in what capacity does he serve when Tintin first gets introduced to him ?

Resurrection

2006-10-31T08:32:00.000-08:00

Lets try and get this thing back on the road .. Thanks Saiko for letting me in

try this one -

Which Tintin book does Professor Calculus first make and appearance in? Easy one to get the ball rolling -

February 6th, 2006

2006-02-06T05:10:00.000-08:00

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

2006-02-02T21:37:00.001-08:00

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

2006-02-01T19:48:00.000-08:00

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.

February 1st, 2006

2006-01-31T21:43:00.000-08:00

Well, the first day wasn't great as far as answers went.

The only correct entry I recieved was from Siddhartha Tiwari

Lets hope people start getting interested pretty soon.

Answers for yesterday's questions are:

1. Red chillies or red pepper(both acceptable depending on whether you read it in English or a translation in any Indian Language), Tintin first met Chang in the Blue Lotus. The name of the book in which this incidence happens is Tintin in Tibet
2. Loch Lomond is Haddock's favourite brand of whiskey
3. Both the flags belong to San Theodoros, but the first one is the flag used by General Tapioca during his reign and the second one was the original San Theodoros Flag
4. Borduria and Syldavia

Here are today's questions :

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Captain Haddock

1. Name the person in the picture.

2. "Fidgy!fidgy!fidgy" when and where does Captain Haddock use these words. I want the name the person with whom this conversation was held. It is emperative that you know the name of the book for that, mention it too.

( Should have just called it reference to context ;))

Now the general questions :

3. The thom(p)sons feature in one asterix book. Name it.

4. Tintin helped a friend of his stage a bloodless coup during the festival advertised by this banner. Name the friend and the country in which it was staged. A little add-on question: What was the name of the capital of this country before the coup and what did it become after that?

Thats all for the day... looking forward to a slightly warmer response.

Ping!

2006-01-31T20:35:00.000-08:00

Hi all!
Please go throught the newly uploaded set of questions. In case you want to answer through messenger, here it is : f2002252@gmail.com
Sorry , Yahoo doesn't work well over here!

January 31st, 2006

2006-01-31T05:50:00.000-08:00

Here is the first set of questions

Please mail in your answers to : saikatb@india.altair.com or f2002252@gmail.com

The topic for this week is :

Captain Haddock

here are the first two (lets keep it easy ;) )

1. Captain haddock ate some 'exotic' fruit by mistake in Kathmandu while on a trip to save Tintin's friend Chang. There are two parts to this question : Name the fruit and the book in which Tintin first met Chang. It would be great if you could name this book as well ;)

2. This one's a sitter: Which is Captain Haddock's favourite Brand of Whiskey?

And here are the two questions for the general catagory:

3. Give me the connection between the two flags ( not as easy as it looks)

4. Sitter again.

Just name the countries these two flags belong to :

See you tomorrow.

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