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Comic Strips and Bande Dessinée

From Tintin's quiff to Mafalda's war on soup, test what you know about the comic strips and bande dessinée that whole generations grew up with.

🎉 Pop Culture medium 20 questions ~6 min
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What this quiz asks

  • Which food does Garfield love above all others?
  • Snoopy, Charlie Brown's dog in Peanuts, is which breed?
  • In Calvin and Hobbes, what does Hobbes look like to everyone except Calvin?
  • What is Tintin's job?
  • Which food does Mafalda, the girl created by the Argentine cartoonist Quino, hate most?
  • Calvin and Hobbes are named after a theologian and a philosopher.
  • In the Asterix books, the Gauls' village holds out against the Romans in which region?
  • Lucky Luke is famous as the man who shoots faster than what?
  • When Spirou first appeared in 1938, what was his job?
  • Select ALL of these characters that appear in Peanuts.
  • Before they had stories of their own, the Smurfs first appeared as guest characters in which series?
  • Tintin set foot on the Moon in a comic before Neil Armstrong did so in real life.
  • In which album does Captain Haddock first appear?
  • Is the Marsupilami, the spotted animal with an endless tail, a creation of Hergé?
  • Before she became a comic strip, Mafalda was designed for an advertising campaign for what?
  • Select ALL of these series that were written by René Goscinny.
  • In what year was the first Peanuts strip published?
  • Put these comic series in order of first appearance, earliest first.
  • Which Italian artist created the sailor-adventurer Corto Maltese?
  • Which cartoonist coined the term ligne claire, 'clear line', for the drawing style of Hergé, in 1977?