JDK's pointless quiz No. 4,327.5

daveymac82c · **Posted:** Fri Nov 14, 2008 5:37 am

Does this have anything to do with Biggles?

-David

JDK · **Posted:** Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:05 am

daveymac82c wrote:

Does this have anything to do with Biggles?

No. Anyone going to put us out o our misery?

blurrkup · **Posted:** Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:25 am

Black is most probably the Black Island or Land of Black Gold.

Red is most likely Red Sea Sharks, which contains the Mosquito.

There is a seaplane in The Shooting Star as well.

JDK · **Posted:** Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:57 am

Correct!

The Red Sea Sharks (In French, Coke en Stock)

Information about the aircraft:
http://membres.lycos.fr/wings2/tintin/coke/coke.htm

And The Black Island

http://membres.lycos.fr/wings2/tintin/i ... enoire.htm

My quiz referred to the last version of the Black Island, but the first version, shown in the link above as well, has some very cool aircraft as well - Howard DGA and (something vaguely like) an Avro Cadet!

My apologies to all.

The Shooting Star features an Arado 196, as it was written in occupied Belgium during W.W.II.

blurrkup · **Posted:** Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:31 am

I win, where's my Pony :twisted:

JDK · **Posted:** Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:43 am

blurrkup wrote:

I win, where's my Pony :twisted:

As I did most of the work, I suggest you open negotiations with Big Grey for his 'pony'.

Or come up with another quiz, quick, to stop both of us being hunted down by irate WIXers...

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11335

Even Google searching was inadequate for us ferriners to get this one... I've heard of Lassie and Rin Tin Tin, but never Tintin.

retroaviation · **Posted:** Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:57 pm

Okay JDK.......that just wasn't fair. How about giving those of us who don't know how to read (unless it's a pop-up book or maintenance manual) a "real" quiz? Who's got time to read books anyway??? :lol:

Gary

Michel Lemieux · **Posted:** Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:37 pm

Actually James, I read those........as a kid......a gazillion years ago.

And back then....I had no clue as to what those birds where :lol:

blurrkup · **Posted:** Fri Nov 14, 2008 4:45 pm

I think I did have a bit of an unfair advantage as I have some of the books in my Library, a few of which i got when I was slightly younger (im only 26). If you ever have the chance to go to Belgium he is everywhere.

He will be better known in the states soon as Steven Spielberg has a film in the works.

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Fri Nov 14, 2008 5:42 pm

TINTIN! with Piotr von Skut and his Mosquito! Blistering barnacles, I read most of those books when I was younger, and saw the syndicated cartoons on Garfield Goose and Friends on WGN-Chicago back in the sixties, which also had the Clutch Cargo cartoons, which featured a Bellanca in one story... but I digress... the pony has left the building.

JDK · **Posted:** Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:19 pm

retroaviation wrote:

Okay JDK.......that just wasn't fair. How about giving those of us who don't know how to read (unless it's a pop-up book or maintenance manual) a "real" quiz? Who's got time to read books anyway??? :lol:

Well, they're mostly picture books... :wink:

Yeah, I'm sorry. I din't think it would be that hard!

Like you, Michel, I came across them as a kid, and I always wondered what that odd looking aircraft was at the start of The Black Island. Ever since then I've had a soft spot for the otherwise awful Percival Prentice.

Randy Wilson · **Posted:** Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:58 pm

Hmm...I guess I was reading Tom Swift Jr. and missed out on these books. Frankly, I never heard of them or the author but that's OK.

(Sounds of whirring and clicking as I think of a way to retaliate, perhaps from Texican culture! I know, I'll get with Gary and ...)

Later

Randy

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11335

Chris Brame wrote:

TINTIN! with Piotr von Skut and his Mosquito! Blistering barnacles, I read most of those books when I was younger, and saw the syndicated cartoons on Garfield Goose and Friends on WGN-Chicago back in the sixties, which also had the Clutch Cargo cartoons, which featured a Bellanca in one story...

As a dedicated Garfield Goose viewer back then, I somehow missed those (or forgot about it)! If anyone finds that cartoon on YouTube, please post a link!

JDK · **Posted:** Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:07 pm

Randy Wilson wrote:

Hmm...I guess I was reading Tom Swift Jr. and missed out on these books. Frankly, I never heard of them or the author but that's OK.

(Sounds of whirring and clicking as I think of a way to retaliate, perhaps from Texican culture! I know, I'll get with Gary and ...)

Later

Sorry Randy. I didn't realise they've yet to be translated into Texan. I look forward to failing abjectly at your revenge quiz.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin

Quote:

The Adventures of Tintin (French: Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic strips created by Belgian artist Hergé, the pen name of Georges Remi (1907–1983). The series first appeared in French in a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle on 10 January 1929. Set in a painstakingly researched world closely mirroring our own, the series has continued as a favourite of readers and critics alike for over 70 years.

The success of the series saw the serialised strips collected into a series of albums (24 in all), spun into a successful magazine and adapted for film and theatre. The series is one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, with translations published in over 50 languages and more than 200 million copies of the books sold to date.

With those numbers, I kinda assumed they'd made it as far as Dallas.

Not as good as Asterix, IMHO, but the bonus is Tintin has carefully researched aircraft in the latter stories. Reading age - Engineer, maybe even as low as pilot. :lol:

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