A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Trivia
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49 free A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
41 free A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving trivia questions with answers. This Charlie Brown Thanksgiving trivia quiz digs into the 1973 CBS special - the tenth Peanuts prime-time special and the third holiday one - from Peppermint Patty inviting herself over to the toast-and-jelly-bean feast Snoopy deals like a casino dealer, the ride to Grandma's condominium, the Emmy it won, and its journey from CBS to ABC to Apple TV+ and PBS. There are questions on the score Vince Guaraldi recorded at Wally Heider Studios, the companion piece 'The Mayflower Voyagers', and the voice cast that changed right after this special. Because the special is only 25 minutes long, the quiz also covers the characters at the table: Peppermint Patty's real name and her cousin-inspired origins, Marcie's 'sir', Franklin's 1968 debut and 2024 special, Woodstock's festival namesake, plus Charles Schulz, Bill Melendez, Lee Mendelson and the poem behind 'Over the River and Through the Wood'. About a third of the questions are easy enough for the kids' table. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the primary sources it cites, and each explanation adds one more thing worth knowing.
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Q 01On which network did A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving first air, on November 20, 1973?
CBS
It placed third in the Nielsen ratings that week, behind All in the Family and Sanford and Son.
Q 02Phil Roman, who co-directed A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, later directed which cartoon cat's TV specials?
Garfield
Garfield got his first TV special, Here Comes Garfield, from Roman in 1982, and Roman then founded his own studio, Film Roman, which went on to animate The Simpsons.
Q 03Why does Peppermint Patty invite herself to Charlie Brown's for Thanksgiving?
Her father is out of town
Her father is out of town, so she phones Charlie Brown and invites herself over, then rings back to add more guests before he can explain that his family is going out for dinner.
Q 04Which candy does Snoopy serve at the makeshift feast in A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?
Jelly beans
Jelly beans, dished up beside popcorn and pretzel sticks, are part of a spread so untraditional that Peppermint Patty demands to know what kind of Thanksgiving dinner it is.
Q 05What piece of games equipment does Snoopy drag outside for the guests to eat on?
A ping-pong table
A ping-pong table, which Snoopy sets up in the yard with chairs from the garage after Linus recruits him to help stage a dinner Charlie Brown never meant to host.
Q 06Which nickname does Peppermint Patty call Charlie Brown throughout A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?
Chuck
Chuck is what she calls him even in mid-tantrum, when she berates him over a holiday feast that he never offered to cook in the first place.
Q 07After Peppermint Patty rejects the meal, who reminds her that she invited herself in the first place?
Marcie
Marcie asks whether Charlie Brown invited them or she invited herself, and a chastened Peppermint Patty sends her inside to patch things up before following to apologise in person.
Q 08Charlie Brown notes 'Over the River and Through the Wood' doesn't fit because his grandmother lives where?
In a condominium
In a condominium, he points out, as the whole gang rides to her dinner singing the old sleigh song; she had invited all his friends when he phoned to say the family was running late.
Q 09How does A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving end, once the guests have gone?
A turkey dinner for two
A turkey dinner for two: once everyone else has driven off, Snoopy and Woodstock cook the traditional meal that none of the guests got, then pull the wishbone between them.
Q 10How does the special open, before any Thanksgiving business?
Lucy pulls the football away
Lucy pulls the football away after persuading Charlie Brown that kicking off is a great Thanksgiving tradition, then wonders aloud how some traditions just slowly fade away.
Q 11What award did A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving win in 1974?
An Emmy
An Emmy, awarded to Charles Schulz himself; accepting an earlier one, for the Christmas special, he had joked that Charlie Brown was not used to winning.
Q 12Which signature Peanuts piano tune returns with a funkier beat in A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?
Linus and Lucy
Linus and Lucy gets its funkiest outing here because the composer hired younger players for the score, among them drummer Mike Clark, soon to join Herbie Hancock's Headhunters.
Q 13Who provided the voices of both Snoopy and Woodstock?
Bill Melendez
Bill Melendez, who also directed the special, recited gibberish into a tape recorder and sped it up, because Schulz would not allow his dog to speak English.
Q 21What is Peppermint Patty's rarely used full name?
Patricia Reichardt
Patricia Reichardt surfaced only in January 1972, more than five years after her debut, in a storyline where she fights her school's dress code with Snoopy as her attorney.
Q 22What does Peppermint Patty almost always wear on her feet in Peanuts?
Sandals
Sandals matter to her: when her school forbids them, it emerges that they were a gift from her father, who calls her his 'rare gem'.
Q 23Peppermint Patty's bespectacled best friend habitually addresses her how?
'Sir'
'Sir' was the first thing her friend ever called her in the strip; Peppermint Patty kept telling her to stop, then gave up and grew used to it.
Q 14Which jazz pianist composed the music for A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?
Vince Guaraldi
Vince Guaraldi scored it with a funk-minded quintet and, unusually, stepped up to the microphone himself: his is the voice singing 'Little Birdie'.
Q 15What did A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving finally get in 2023, fifty years after it first aired?
A full soundtrack album
A full soundtrack album arrived only in 2023: for half a century the score could be heard just by watching the special, apart from a few cues scattered across compilations.
Q 16'The Mayflower Voyagers', ABC's long-time companion to A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, opened which Peanuts miniseries?
This Is America, Charlie Brown
This Is America, Charlie Brown sent the Peanuts kids through US history in 1988 and did what Peanuts animation rarely does, showing adults, George Washington among them, in full view.
Q 17Which streaming service acquired exclusive rights to the special in 2020?
Apple TV+
Apple TV+ put the Peanuts specials behind a paywall but promised free viewing windows: in 2020 anyone could stream this one for three days in Thanksgiving week.
Q 18In A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, Peppermint Patty wonders why she can't 'act right' away from which sport?
Baseball
Baseball is her home turf: in her very first strips she joined Charlie Brown's team as its new pitcher, pushed him out to the outfield, then quit in disgust.
Q 19When did A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving traditionally air in Canada?
Early October
Early October, because Canada's Thanksgiving falls on the second Monday of that month, about six weeks before the American holiday.
Q 20What was unusual about Peppermint Patty's voice in A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?
A boy performed it
A boy performed it: Christopher DeFaria voiced the tomboy in several specials, then grew up to be a Hollywood producer whose films include Ready Player One.
Q 24Franklin, introduced in July 1968, was the first what in Peanuts?
Black character
The strip's first Black character arrived after Los Angeles schoolteacher Harriet Glickman wrote to Schulz, eleven days after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, urging him to add one.
Q 25Where did Franklin first meet Charlie Brown in the strip?
At the beach
At the beach, Franklin tells Charlie Brown that his father is a soldier in Vietnam, helps him build a sandcastle and is invited to come and visit.
Q 26In the classic Peanuts TV specials, which instrument stands in for the voices of adults?
Trombone
A trombone with a mute in its bell speaks for teachers and parents, the specials' way of copying the strip, where adult talk is shown only from the children's side.
Q 27Woodstock is named after what?
The 1969 music festival
The 1969 music festival was still in the news when Schulz, after more than three years of drawing Snoopy's little bird friend without a name, decided he needed one and simply borrowed it.
Q 28What breed of dog is Snoopy?
Beagle
Beagle, though his look came from Spike, Schulz's childhood hunting dog, whose appetite for pins and tacks won the teenage artist a spot in Ripley's Believe It or Not in 1937.
Q 29When Snoopy battles the Red Baron as the World War I Flying Ace, what serves as his Sopwith Camel?
His doghouse
His doghouse has been his fighter plane since October 1965, and for all his swagger the ace never wins: the Red Baron shoots him down again and again.
Q 30What job does Charlie Brown's father have, the same one Charles Schulz's own father held?
Barber
A barber, like Carl Schulz, who cut hair in St. Paul; after the war his son moved into the apartment over the barbershop and set about becoming a cartoonist.