Tintin Research Projects

Welcome to the graduate school of the University of Tintin. Below find several Ph.D. projects. Please e-mail The Tintin Trivia Quiz with your results. (Dissertations should be supported by adequate evidence. But remember, this is fiction.) Anyone who supplies complete and acceptable answers will receive the title of Tintin Professor.

• The Mystery Man An unnamed man appears in at least two Tintin books. Who is he? Does he work for one of the villains? Does he appear in other books?
• Find the answers to the unknowns in the visual quizzes found on this site.
• Where does Tintin live in each book?
• What is Tintin’s age in each book?
• What are the ages of other main characters in each book?
• What is Tintin’s full name?
• Complete the conversation between Tintin and Sophocles Sarcophagus when they are floating in coffins in the Red Sea in Cigars of the Pharaoh
• Where was Tintin born?

12 07 04 A retrospective medical study, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal online attempts to show why Tintin never aged. “Acquired growth hormone deficiency and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in a subject with repeated head trauma, or Tintin goes to the neurologist,” Antoine Cyr, Louis-Olivier Cyr and Claude Cyr.