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1. What drink do the Thompsons buy for Tintin?
2. What nationality is the man who tries to deliver a letter to Tintin, but is kidnapped?
3. Which character, previously seen in 'Cigars of the Pharaoh', do we meet again on board the Karaboudjan?
4. What is Tintin offered to eat and drink whilst tied up in the hold of the Karaboudjan?
5. What does Tintin find in the tins of crab?
6. What does Captain Haddock do to try and keep Tintin warm whilst on the boat?
7. Who or what does Captain Haddock mistake Tintin for whilst under the influence of the desert heat?
8. What is the name of the Port where Tintin and Captain Haddock go to try and track down the Karaboudjan?
9. Having had too much to drink, Captain Haddock makes something of a scene twice in the space of minutes. Why does he do so the first time?
10. Why does the car Tintin uses to try and follow the Captain's kidnappers not work?
11. What does the shopkeeper call Tintin and the Thompsons?
12. What building do the Thompsons quite literally get kicked out of?
13. Details of which Greek philosopher help Tintin work out where Allan has disappeared?
14. What exclamation does Omar Ben Salaad, the ringleader of the drug-runners, use when the Thompsons ask him if he is doing so?
15. Why is Captain Haddock taken ill at the end of the story?
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