Tintin Quiz: Tintin Book Covers Quiz

Quiz created by Christian and Stuart Gelzer [sgelzer (at) mwc.edu], and HTML'd by Jesper Jühne

This Tintin quiz tests your familiarity with the standard modern covers of the regular corpus, Congo to Picaros. Soviets and Alph-Art have been excluded.

  1. Which cover(s) depict a camera?
  2. Which cover(s) depict a whisky bottle?
  3. Which cover(s) depict dead people?
  4. On which cover(s) is Tintin the only live human?
  5. Which cover depicts the greatest number of people?
  6. Which cover(s) depict the villain?
  7. On which cover(s) can we not see Tintin's face?
  8. On which cover(s) can we not see Snowy?
  9. Which cover(s) depict live animals other than Snowy?
  10. Of the books in which Captain Haddock appears, which cover(s) do not show him?
  11. Of the covers that show Haddock, in which is he wearing his usual captain's cap?
  12. On which cover(s) is Tintin wearing any kind of headgear?
  13. Which cover(s) depict a land vehicle?
  14. What vehicle appears on two different covers?
  15. Which cover(s) depict a water-going vessel?
  16. Which cover(s) depict a body of water but no vessel?
  17. Which cover(s) contain examples of foreign writing (i.e., not French or English in those editions)
  18. Which cover(s) are set in Europe?
  19. Which cover depicts New Zealand?
  20. Which cover(s) are set inside, as opposed to outdoors?
  21. On which cover(s) do the Thompsons appear?
  22. On which cover(s) is a shot being fired?
  23. On which cover(s) is Tintin holding a weapon?
  24. Which other cover(s) depict weapons of any kind?
  25. Which cover depicts a moment that comes earliest in the story (counting by page number)?
  26. Which cover depicts a moment that comes latest in the story (counting by page number)?
  27. Which cover depicts a moment that does not appear in the story at all?

Answers

  1. Congo (movie camera), Castafiore Emerald (still camera and TV camera)
  2. Crab with the Golden Claws, Secret of the Unicorn
  3. Cigars of the Pharaoh (mummies), Prisoners of the Sun (mummies), BONUS POINTS IF YOU SAID Secret of the Unicorn (Sir Francis Haddock)
  4. Cigars of the Pharaoh, Blue Lotus, Black Island, Shooting Star, Red Rackham's Treasure
  5. Destination Moon (more than forty on the scaffolding and the rocket)
  6. Black Gold
  7. Black Island, Destination Moon, Explorers on the Moon, Calculus Affair
  8. None
  9. Congo (giraffe), Black Island (birds), Crab with the Golden Claws (camels), Red Rackham's Treasure (fish and jellyfish), Castafiore Emerald (cat)
  10. Shooting Star, Red Rackham's Treasure, Black Gold?
  11. Prisoners of the Sun Tibet Picaros
  12. Congo, Blue Lotus, Broken Ear, Black Island, Crab with the Golden Claws, Explorers on the Moon, Tibet
  13. Congo (Model T) Black Gold (jeep), Destination Moon (jeep and trucks), Explorers on the Moon (lunar vehicle), Calculus Affair (tank)
  14. The moon rocket
  15. Broken Ear (canoe), Black Island (boat), Secret of the Unicorn (the Unicorn), Red Rackham's Treasure (submarine), Red Sea Sharks (raft)
  16. Shooting Star, BONUS POINTS IF YOU SAID Explorers on the Moon (the Pacific Ocean is visible on Earth)
  17. Cigars of the Pharaoh (hieroglyphics), Blue Lotus (Chinese on the lamp), Black Gold (Arabic under the title)
  18. Black Island, King Ottokar's Sceptre, Secret of the Unicorn, Seven Crystal Balls, Destination Moon, Calculus Affair, Castafiore Emerald
  19. BONUS POINTS IF YOU SAID Explorers on the Moon (New Zealand is visible on Earth)
  20. Cigars of the Pharaoh, Blue Lotus, Secret of the Unicorn, Seven Crystal Balls, Prisoners of the Sun, Castafiore Emerald, Flight 714
  21. Black Gold
    BONUS POINTS IF YOU SAID Explorers on the Moon (Under a magnifying glass, the two figures near the rocket can be seen to be carrying canes.)
  22. Crab with the Golden Claws
  23. Flight 714
  24. America (tomahawks), Broken Ear (rifle), King Ottokar's Sceptre (halberds and swords), Secret of the Unicorn (saber), Calculus Affair (tank cannon; holsters are not weapons), BONUS POINTS IF YOU SAID Cigars of the Pharaohs (bow and arrow in the mural)
  25. Cigars of the Pharaohs (page 8)
  26. Black Gold (page 60)
  27. Explorers on the Moon