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The Adventures of Tintin - Tintin in the Land of the Soviets

Test your knowledge of the Adventures of Tintin by answering these questions about the first album in the series: Tintin in the Land of the Soviets.
Thanks to Elboy for the original French Quiz!
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1. What country does Tintin investigate?
The Soviet Union ✓
Germany ✓
Yugoslavia ✓
Poland ✓
It's in the title!
2. What newspaper does he work for?
Le Petit Vingtième ✓
Le Enquêteur ✓
Le Petit Reporter ✓
La Gazette de Bruxelles ✓
"Le Petit Vingtième" is the newspaper Hergé worked for. It's also the one Tintin works for in his adventures.
3. Which political ideology is vividly caricatured throughout the album?
Communism ✓
Capitalism ✓
Anarchism ✓
Facism ✓
Hergé, then 22 years old, published this adventure at the request of Abbé Wallez, director of Le Petit Vingtième, known for his fascist and anti-communist positions. The latter will use the weekly to disseminate his ideologies, until his dismissal 1933.
4. What is the name of the state police who track Tintin throughout his trip?
The Stasi ✓
The GPU ✓
The SS ✓
The KGB ✓
The GPU (GPU) was the state police of the USSR from 1922 to 1934. The KGB, its successor, was not born until 1954. The Stasi was the political police of the German Democratic Republic from 1950 to 1989. The SS was the Paramilitary force of Nazi Germany.
5. From the first page, a Soviet tries to assassinate Tintin. How does he do it?
He tries to shoot him from afar ✓
He aims at it with a hammer and sickle ✓
He pours poison into his glass ✓
He blows up his train ✓
6. With what humorous object does an agent try to assassinate Tintin with next?
A garden hose ✓
A banana peel ✓
A pumpkin pie ✓
A bowl of borscht ✓
This is one of the countless visual gags that punctuate this adventure.
7. Find the correct statement: the factories that the Soviets show to the English Communists...
...all produce vodka ✓
...make items of horrid quality ✓
...are stage sets with fake noises ✓
...operate thanks to children who work there day and night ✓
One of the many caricatures of the Soviet model present in this album.
8. What are the Soviet leaders stealing from the peasants?
their money ✓
their vodka ✓
their children ✓
their wheat ✓
9. Which animal attacks Tintin (and is defeated with his bare hands)?
a bear ✓
a lion ✓
a wolf ✓
a coyote ✓
Undoubtedly a metaphor of Tintin undermining the Soviet Union.
10. Where is the hiding place of the treasures stolen from the people by the Soviet leaders?
Under the Kremlin ✓
Under a haunted cabin ✓
In a zoo, under the lion's cage ✓
In an old steelworks ✓
11. What does Tintin sculpt in a tree trunk with his penknife?
Propellers ✓
Skis ✓
A coat ✓
A rifle ✓
This scene was featured on the cover of Le Petit Vingtième in February 1930. Auctioned in 2019, it went for more than a million dollars!
12. Upon his return, Tintin lands in Berlin. What happens when he lands?
He is thought to be an escaped convict and deported to the USSR ✓
He is mistaken as the winner of an air race and given a standing ovation ✓
He is declared a Soviet spy and is imprisoned ✓
He is mistaken for the King of Belgium and taken to Belgium ✓
To go further: Tintin lands at Berlin-Tempelhof airport. This former military ground, then an airport, was transformed in 2010 into a green space.
13. Which animal does Snowy disguise himself as to save Tintin from his captors?
A tiger ✓
A bear ✓
A lion ✓
A wolf ✓
However, Snowy ends up meeting a real tiger.
14. In which year was this adventure published in the form of an album?
1933 ✓
1936 ✓
1930 ✓
1942 ✓
This Tintin adventure was initially pre-published between January 1929 and May 1930 in the pages of Le Petit Vingtième . The album will appear in September 1930.
15. What famous building appears on the original album cover?
The Winter Palace ✓
The Kremlin ✓
St. Basil's Cathedral ✓
The Brandenburg Gate ✓
16. At the start of his journey, Tintin...
has brushed hair ✓
is unemployed ✓
has a fiancée ✓
has no dog ✓
At the beginning of the story, Tintin's hair is brushed. It was during a car chase that Tintin's hair rose, which will never come down!
17. Which of these historical figures is NOT mentioned in this adventure?
Trotsky ✓
Lenin ✓
Rasputin ✓
Stalin ✓
If you find one of them in the book, please inform me!
18. With this adventure, Hergé introduces a new graphic element into his work. Which one?
Boxes ✓
Color ✓
Covers ✓
Speech Bubbles ✓
Before The Adventures of Tintin, Hergé did not use speech bubbles to place the dialogues there: the descriptions of the scenes and dialogues appeared in boxes under each box. Moreover, the color will only appear in 1946 with the reissues of Tintin.
5 Comments
TheNatureThread
+1
Level 65
Mar 12, 2023
Nice quiz! Coincidental that a lot of Tintin quizzes were made by another Telugu user, surajrocks. Or did you see his quizzes lol
Neodymium
+2
Level 59
Mar 12, 2023
It's a translation of Elboy's quiz..........see the caveats.
TheNatureThread
+1
Level 65
Mar 12, 2023
Yeah ik, that's why I thought it's a coincidence, but I thought maybe u also saw his quizzes
Neodymium
+1
Level 59
Mar 13, 2023
I've seen the name before, but not the quizzes.
Neodymium
+1
Level 59
Mar 15, 2023
I actually didn't know about Tintin before I saw his blog.
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