60 Fun Facts About Snoopy

Snoopy is what breed of dog?

The strip only settled on the breed later in its run; early on he was drawn as a more realistic, four-legged puppy.

Snoopy made his first appearance in the strip two days after its debut, on what date?

He was not even called by name until the November 10 strip that same year.

Snoopy's brother Spike lives in the desert outside which California town?

The Schulz family lived there themselves from 1928 to 1930, and Spike mostly talks to saguaro cacti and rocks.

Which of Snoopy's siblings first turned up as an entrant in an Ugly Dog Contest, and went on to win it?

He is the roly-poly one of the litter, and Snoopy's family tree runs to seven siblings in total.

Which sibling of Snoopy's wears a lace collar and lives in Kansas City with her teenage son?

She looks like Snoopy with longer eyelashes and first appeared in the strip in June 1976.

Which long-lost brother, with spotted floppy ears, does Snoopy remember as the smartest in the family?

Andy is the fuzzy-haired one, and Spike is the thin desert-dweller in a fedora.

Snoopy's bird friend was finally named in 1970. Where did the name come from?

The 1969 festival in upstate New York lent its name to a bird who had already been in the strip since 1966.

How is Woodstock's speech drawn in the comic strip?

Snoopy is the only non-bird who understands him, which suits a duo who mostly communicate in silence anyway.

Woodstock's one lasting goal in the strip is to track down his mom so he can send her what?

He also gets beak-bleeds if he flies higher than about ten feet, which does not help the search.

In winter, where does Woodstock skate and play ice hockey?

Snoopy also builds him a birdhouse in the Easter special to replace his flimsy nest.

As the World War I Flying Ace, Snoopy imagines his doghouse to be which aircraft?

The plane is shot down by the Red Baron with tireless regularity, and Snoopy always survives to curse him.

Snoopy's sunglasses-wearing alter ego Joe Cool casts him as what?

Most of Snoopy's fantasies follow one formula: he pretends to be something 'world famous' and then fails at it.

Charlie Brown bought Snoopy as a pup from which establishment?

The place became a running reference point, and Snoopy's scattered siblings all trace back to it.

Snoopy was first shown sleeping on top of his doghouse, rather than inside it, in which year?

The doghouse defies physics in the strip and is bigger on the inside than the outside.

Snoopy first stood upright on his hind legs in the strip in which year?

Before that he was a conventional four-legged dog; walking upright opened the door to every later persona.

Snoopy's thoughts were first shown in a thought balloon on what date?

He never speaks aloud; the entire inner life of a novelist, attorney and fighter pilot runs through those balloons.

Apollo 10, whose lunar module carried the call sign Snoopy, was described by NASA as what?

The crew flew the lander down to within about nine miles of the lunar surface without touching down.

Who commanded Apollo 10, the mission that flew the lunar module Snoopy?

John Young and Gene Cernan rounded out the crew, and both later walked on the Moon themselves.

What happened to the ascent stage of Apollo 10's lunar module Snoopy after the crew was done with it?

The remaining fuel was burned to fling it past the Moon, making it the only flown Apollo lunar module still out there somewhere.

Apollo 10 was the first mission to carry what inside the spacecraft?

The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center on May 18, 1969, two months before Apollo 11.

NASA's Silver Snoopy award is always presented personally by whom?

The pin itself has been flown on a mission before it is handed over, and a letter states which flight carried it.

Silver Snoopy awards are limited to no more than what share of eligible NASA employees and contractors?

It recognises outstanding contributions to human flight safety or mission success, so scarcity is the point.

When NASA made Snoopy a safety symbol, it wanted something as recognised as which other mascot?

Charles Schulz drew the image the award pin is based on, showing Snoopy in a spacesuit.

Snoopy first flew as a character balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in which year?

That first balloon showed him in his World War I Flying Ace goggles and scarf.

Which American insurance company used Snoopy as its corporate mascot from 1985 to 2016?

The company even flew airships named Snoopy One, Snoopy Two and Snoopy J before dropping the character.

Which animation studio produced the computer-animated 2015 film The Peanuts Movie?

It was the studio's first film to earn a Golden Globe nomination for Best Animated Feature.

Snoopy's vocal effects in The Peanuts Movie came from archival recordings of which man?

He first made the noises for Snoopy's appearances on The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show and voiced Woodstock too.

Which young actor, later of Stranger Things, voiced Charlie Brown in The Peanuts Movie?

The screenplay came from Charles Schulz's son Craig and grandson Bryan, keeping the film in the family.

Roughly how much did The Peanuts Movie gross worldwide against its $99M budget?

In the film Snoopy is busy writing a novel starring himself as a flying ace pursuing the Red Baron.

The final original Peanuts strip ran on what date, one day after Charles Schulz died?

The last daily had already appeared on January 3; the farewell was a Sunday strip.

In which California city did Charles Schulz die the night before his final strip appeared?

The county's airport was renamed for him later that year, and his museum opened in the same city.

How many Peanuts strips did Charles Schulz publish over nearly fifty years?

He drew every one himself, lettering and coloring included, with no assistants.

At Schulz's death, Peanuts ran in more than 2,600 newspapers across roughly how many countries?

The readership was estimated at around 355 million people.

When Peanuts launched as a daily strip in the autumn of its first year, how many newspapers carried it?

The debut cast was Charlie Brown, Shermy and Patty; Snoopy did not show up until two days later.

Before Peanuts, Schulz drew a weekly panel called Li'l Folks for which newspaper?

It ran from 1947 to 1950 in his hometown paper before he sold the idea to United Feature Syndicate.

The syndicate's chosen title, which Schulz always hated, was borrowed from what?

Schulz called the name miserable and undignified; he had wanted to keep Li'l Folks but a trademark got in the way.

Charles Schulz's lifelong nickname, given by an uncle after a horse in the strip Barney Google, was what?

The horse was Spark Plug, and the nickname stuck from infancy right through to his gravestone.

Schulz's 1996 star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame sits next to whose?

Snoopy got a star of his own on November 2, 2015, timed to the release of the feature film.

Charles Schulz was born in 1922 in which city?

Like Charlie Brown, he was a barber's son, and he was drafted into the Army in 1942.

In 1969 Schulz built and owned what facility in his adopted California hometown?

The Redwood Empire Ice Arena is still open, and Woodstock's hockey habit was no coincidence.

Charlie Brown's catchphrase is which two-word expression of exasperation?

He is also the pitcher and manager of a baseball team that almost never wins.

Snoopy never uses his owner's name; what does he call Charlie Brown instead?

The zigzag shirt that makes him recognisable did not appear until several weeks into the strip.

How much does Lucy charge for advice at her psychiatric booth?

The sign flips between 'The Doctor Is In' and 'Out', and her surname came from a former neighbor of Schulz's in Colorado Springs.

Linus has a crush on his schoolteacher, who is named what?

Linus himself was named after Schulz's friend Linus Maurer, and his blue blanket helped put 'security blanket' into the language.

Sally Brown pursues Linus relentlessly and calls him by what pet name?

Sally was born in the strip on May 26, 1959, and later developed a habit of talking to her school building about her worries.

Peppermint Patty's real name, almost never used in the strip, is what?

Schulz got the nickname from a dish of peppermint patties in his house, and she gets a D-minus on every assignment.

For years Peppermint Patty did not realise Snoopy was a dog and described him as what?

She is also the only character who calls Charlie Brown 'Chuck', and Marcie in turn calls her 'Sir'.

Which company commissioned and sponsored A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965?

The producers hired real children as voices and skipped the laugh track, and the special still won an Emmy and a Peabody.

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown first aired on CBS on what date?

It pre-empted My Three Sons, and it was the third Peanuts special made, though only the second holiday one.

The Royal Guardsmen, who took 'Snoopy vs. the Red Baron' to No. 2, came from which city?

They never asked Schulz's permission first, which held up the Canadian release until he gave his okay.

Snoopy's stock opening line 'It was a dark and stormy night' comes from an 1830 novel by which author?

The novel was Paul Clifford, and the line now names an annual contest for the worst possible opening sentence.

In the 1972 film Snoopy, Come Home, Snoopy leaves to visit which former owner, who is in hospital?

The trip is a parade of 'No Dogs Allowed' signs, and the songs were written by the Sherman Brothers of Mary Poppins fame.

In 1997 the American Contract Bridge League gave Snoopy and Woodstock what honorary rank?

Snoopy also picked up a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2015, so his honours are not limited to card games.

Aboard NASA's uncrewed Artemis 1 mission around the Moon in 2022, a plush Snoopy served what function?

When the toy floats free, the crew (or in this case the cameras) know the capsule has reached weightlessness.

Teenage Schulz's first published drawing ran in Ripley's in 1937 because his dog Spike ate what?

That same dog later inspired the original drawings of Snoopy and lent his name to Snoopy's desert-dwelling brother.

Franklin, the strip's first Black character, met Charlie Brown where in his 1968 debut?

Schulz added him after a letter from Los Angeles schoolteacher Harriet Glickman, and Franklin's father was serving in Vietnam.

Beyond his toy piano, Schroeder plays which position on Charlie Brown's baseball team?

He was introduced as a baby in May 1951 and every year marks his hero Beethoven's birthday.

Pig-Pen proudly describes the cloud that follows him everywhere as what?

His real name is never revealed, and Charlie Brown is the only one who accepts him exactly as he is.

Beginning on Leap Day of which year did Schulz drop the strip's fixed four-panel daily format?

The change let him vary panel counts and sizes for the last dozen years of the run.

Snoopy first adopted his World War I Flying Ace persona in the strip in which year?

The debut came on 10 October 1965, seven years after he first slept on top of his doghouse.