Schroeder trivia quiz answers

1. What position does Schroeder usually play on the baseball team?
[Catcher] (4/1/66)

2a. Schroeder once promised to kiss Lucy if she…what?
[Hit a home run] (3/15/72)
2b. Has Schroeder ever actually kissed Lucy? If so, when?
[Yes, when she remembered Beethoven’s birthday] (12/16/84)

3. Describe a time that Schroeder’s piano was lost or destroyed.
[Lucy threw it down a sewer (10/3/74); Lucy threw it into a kite-eating tree (1/27/69); it was crushed by a cannon ball that Snoopy and his bird friends fired (4/19/86)]

4. Schroeder once tried to take up a collection for a Beethoven memorial. What was the response of (a) Lucy, (b) Violet, (c) Beethoven?
[(a) “Sure, I’d be glad to! Here’s ten thousand dollars!!” (6/6/56) (b) “You’re wasting your time, Schroeder…they’ve already built a memorial to Stephen Foster!” (6/8/56) (c) He (or rather his bust) smiled at Schroeder (6/9/56)]

5. Schroeder once quit baseball to concentrate on the piano. What repercussions did this have?
[Everyone else quit too] (7/31/61)

6a. What was Schroeder’s reaction the first time he encountered a real piano?
[He cried] (10/2/51)
6b. What is Schroeder’s explanation of how he can play such great pieces on a toy piano whose keys are just painted on?
[“I practice a lot!”] (4/9/53)

7. What was the context of the following quotations?

(a) You could have accomplished the same thing with an autographed baseball.
[Explaining Charlie Brown’s feelings of well-being after Sally was born] (6/29/59)

(b) 10, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000.
[Explaining what he meant by saying the chances he would marry Lucy were a ‘googol’ to one] (1/23/63)

(c) It’s all right…I can play.
[His finger was hurt playing baseball and Charlie Brown asked if he could still play. To check, he ran home and played the piano.] (9/4/66)

(d) Nice catch, “dear-heart”!
[Lucy snapping his catcher’s mask onto his face after he complained about her calling him “dear-heart”] (5/11/68)

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