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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.
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Last updated: March 15, 2023
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1. What country does Tintin investigate?
It's in the title!
Germany
Poland
The Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
2. What newspaper does he work for?
"Le Petit Vingtième" is the newspaper Hergé worked for. It's also the one Tintin works for in his adventures.
Le Enquêteur
Le Petit Reporter
Le Petit Vingtième
La Gazette de Bruxelles
3. Which political ideology is vividly caricatured throughout the album?
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.
Facism
Communism
Capitalism
Anarchism
4. What is the name of the state police who track Tintin throughout his trip?
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.
The KGB
The GPU
The Stasi
The SS
5. From the first page, a Soviet tries to assassinate Tintin. How does he do it?
He tries to shoot him from afar
He pours poison into his glass
He aims at it with a hammer and sickle
He blows up his train
6. With what humorous object does an agent try to assassinate Tintin with next?
This is one of the countless visual gags that punctuate this adventure.
A pumpkin pie
A garden hose
A bowl of borscht
A banana peel
7. Find the correct statement: the factories that the Soviets show to the English Communists...
One of the many caricatures of the Soviet model present in this album.
...are stage sets with fake noises
...all produce vodka
...make items of horrid quality
...operate thanks to children who work there day and night
8. What are the Soviet leaders stealing from the peasants?
their money
their wheat
their children
their vodka
9. Which animal attacks Tintin (and is defeated with his bare hands)?
Undoubtedly a metaphor of Tintin undermining the Soviet Union.
a lion
a bear
a wolf
a coyote
10. Where is the hiding place of the treasures stolen from the people by the Soviet leaders?
Under a haunted cabin
Under the Kremlin
In a zoo, under the lion's cage
In an old steelworks
11. What does Tintin sculpt in a tree trunk with his penknife?
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!
A rifle
Skis
A coat
Propellers
12. Upon his return, Tintin lands in Berlin. What happens when he lands?
To go further: Tintin lands at Berlin-Tempelhof airport. This former military ground, then an airport, was transformed in 2010 into a green space.
He is thought to be an escaped convict and deported to the USSR
He is mistaken for the King of Belgium and taken to Belgium
He is mistaken as the winner of an air race and given a standing ovation
He is declared a Soviet spy and is imprisoned
13. Which animal does Snowy disguise himself as to save Tintin from his captors?
However, Snowy ends up meeting a real tiger.
A lion
A tiger
A bear
A wolf
14. In which year was this adventure published in the form of an album?
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.
1936
1933
1930
1942
15. What famous building appears on the original album cover?
The Brandenburg Gate
The Kremlin
St. Basil's Cathedral
The Winter Palace
16. At the start of his journey, Tintin...
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!
has brushed hair
has a fiancée
has no dog
is unemployed
17. Which of these historical figures is NOT mentioned in this adventure?
If you find one of them in the book, please inform me!
Stalin
Trotsky
Rasputin
Lenin
18. With this adventure, Hergé introduces a new graphic element into his work. Which one?
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.
Speech Bubbles
Boxes
Color
Covers
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6 Comments
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Level 67
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
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Level 63
Mar 12, 2023
It's a translation of Elboy's quiz..........see the caveats.
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Level 67
Mar 12, 2023
Yeah ik, that's why I thought it's a coincidence, but I thought maybe u also saw his quizzes
Neodymium
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Level 63
Mar 13, 2023
I've seen the name before, but not the quizzes.
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Level 63
Mar 15, 2023
I actually didn't know about Tintin before I saw his blog.
Surajrocks99
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Feb 23, 2026
robbing my old style huh
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