List of Quizzes
Fun Stuff
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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