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52 free Snoopy trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
59 free Snoopy trivia questions with answers. Snoopy started as a fairly ordinary dog in the second week of Peanuts and turned into a flying ace, a novelist, a college cool guy and a NASA mascot. This quiz follows the whole arc: Charles Schulz's Minnesota childhood and the real dog who inspired the character, the strip's fifty-year run, Snoopy's scattered siblings, his friendship with a bird who cannot fly straight, and the rest of the gang from the psychiatric booth to the pumpkin patch. It also covers the places Snoopy went beyond the newspaper page: the lunar module that carried his name within a few miles of the Moon, the silver pin astronauts hand to engineers, the Macy's parade balloon, an insurance company's blimps and the 2015 feature film. Questions run from easy warm-ups any Peanuts fan will get to a handful that only a devoted reader of the strip's history will know. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and primary sources before publishing, and each question carries its citation, so it works for a trivia night, a classroom or a solo test of your Peanuts knowledge.
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Q 01Snoopy is what breed of dog?
Beagle
Beagle: he began as an ordinary four-legged pup, and only years later did Schulz let him walk upright and dream of being a flying ace.
Q 02What does Lucy keep pulling away just as Charlie Brown tries to kick it?
A football
A football: when Lucy once promised not to pull it away, Charlie Brown missed the ball and kicked Lucy instead.
Q 03Snoopy's brother Spike lives in the desert outside which California town?
Needles
Needles: Schulz lived there as a boy, which is why Snoopy's brother settled in that desert town.
Q 04Which Peanuts character, talked about but barely ever shown, was inspired by Donna Johnson, a woman Schulz met at Art Instruction?
The Little Red-Haired Girl
The Little Red-Haired Girl: Donna Johnson turned down Schulz's marriage proposal and married another man.
Q 05Which sister of Snoopy's lives in Kansas City with her teenage son?
Belle
Belle: she later turns up in Snoopy's Flying Ace stories as a nurse, cheering the soldiers with doughnuts.
Q 06Where did the name of Snoopy's little yellow bird friend come from?
A music festival
A music festival: the little bird who got that name also types Snoopy's letters and helps him lead scout hikes.
Q 07As the World War I Flying Ace, Snoopy imagines his doghouse to be which aircraft?
Sopwith Camel
Sopwith Camel: the Red Baron shoots it down again and again, and 'Curse you, Red Baron!' became one of the strip's catchphrases.
Q 08Snoopy's sunglasses-wearing alter ego Joe Cool casts him as what?
A college student
Most of Snoopy's fantasies follow one formula: he pretends to be something 'world famous' and then fails at it.
Q 09Charlie Brown bought Snoopy from which establishment?
Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
Daisy Hill Puppy Farm: when Snoopy later went back to visit it, he found it had been turned into a parking garage.
Q 10Snoopy's doghouse is said to hold a pool table and a painting by which artist?
Van Gogh
Van Gogh: when the doghouse burned down in 1966 the painting was lost, and Snoopy replaced it with an Andrew Wyeth.
Q 11On Veterans Day in the strip, Snoopy drinks root beer in honor of which World War II cartoonist?
Bill Mauldin
Bill Mauldin: Schulz, an Army veteran himself, admired Mauldin's wartime cartoons and even drew Mauldin's soldiers Willie and Joe into a 1998 strip.
Q 12In the Peanuts TV specials, what do the voices of teachers and other adults sound like?
A muffled horn
A muffled horn: adults are almost never seen in the strip either, and Schulz liked to say there just wasn't room for them.
Q 13Apollo 10, whose lunar module carried the call sign Snoopy, was described by NASA as what?
A dress rehearsal for the Moon landing
Q 21Which American insurance company used Snoopy as its corporate mascot from 1985 to 2016?
MetLife
MetLife: it cut the Peanuts gang loose in 2016 while retooling its business around corporate clients, after years of Snoopy blimps.
Q 22Which animation studio produced the computer-animated 2015 film The Peanuts Movie?
Blue Sky Studios
Blue Sky Studios: its animators studied Schulz's original drawings so the 3D characters stayed faithful to his pen line.
Q 23Snoopy's vocal effects in The Peanuts Movie came from archival recordings of which man?
Bill Melendez
Bill Melendez: he recorded sped-up sounds as a stand-in, expecting an actor to redo them, but time ran short and he voiced Snoopy for decades.
A dress rehearsal for the Moon landing: its lander dropped to within about nine miles of the surface to scout Apollo 11's landing site.
Q 14Who commanded Apollo 10, the mission that flew the lunar module Snoopy?
Thomas Stafford
Thomas Stafford: he never walked on the Moon, but his lunar module pilot, Gene Cernan, later became the last person to walk on it.
Q 15What happened to Apollo 10's Snoopy ascent stage after the crew left?
It was sent into orbit around the Sun
It was sent into orbit around the Sun: its location went unknown, and in 2019 astronomers said asteroid 2018 AV2 is likely the lost stage.
Q 16Apollo 10 became the first Apollo flight to carry what inside its spacecraft?
A color television camera
A color television camera: its broadcasts helped win the crew a special Emmy.
Q 17NASA's Silver Snoopy award is always presented personally by whom?
An astronaut
An astronaut: the award is the astronauts' personal thanks for flight-safety work, and no more than 1% of the workforce receives it each year.
Q 18Before any NASA Silver Snoopy pin is awarded, what must that pin already have done?
Flown in space
Flown in space: the award was meant to help ground workers feel part of the missions, and a letter names the flight each pin rode.
Q 19When NASA adopted Snoopy as a symbol for its workers, it wanted him as recognisable as which government mascot?
Smokey Bear
Smokey Bear: Schulz let NASA use Snoopy at no cost.
Q 20Apollo 10's command module, Charlie Brown, is on display in which city's Science Museum?
London
London: after touring several countries, the capsule went there on loan from the Smithsonian in 1978.
Q 24Which young actor, later of Stranger Things, voiced Charlie Brown in The Peanuts Movie?
Noah Schnapp
Noah Schnapp: Schulz's son Craig first showed his idea for the film to his screenwriter son, Bryan, and they wrote it with Cornelius Uliano.
Q 25What did the last original Peanuts strip, published the day after the cartoonist died, show?
Schulz's farewell to his readers
Schulz's farewell to his readers: he had announced his retirement in December 1999, after he was diagnosed with colon cancer.
Q 26In which California city did Charles Schulz die the night before his final strip appeared?
Santa Rosa
The county's airport was renamed for him later that year, and his museum opened in the same city.
Q 27Schulz drew every Peanuts strip himself, with no assistants, even after developing what?
A hand tremor
A hand tremor: it made his later lines visibly shakier, yet he swore no one else would ever draw the strip, and no one did.
Q 28Which newspaper was among the seven that carried Peanuts at its 1950 launch?
The Washington Post
The Washington Post: Schulz drew the strip in four equal panels so editors could run it across, down or as a square.
Q 29Before Peanuts, Schulz drew a weekly panel called Li'l Folks for which newspaper?
St. Paul Pioneer Press
St. Paul Pioneer Press: when the paper turned down his requests for more money and a better spot, Schulz quit the panel.
Q 30The syndicate's title Peanuts, which Schulz hated, is said to come from what?
Howdy Doody's Peanut Gallery
Howdy Doody's Peanut Gallery: the syndicate had dropped Schulz's own title, Li'l Folks, as too close to an older strip, Little Folks.