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1a. What position does Schroeder usually play on the baseball team?
[Catcher]
1b. What other position has he played?
[Pitcher (in an early 50's strip)]
2a. Schroeder once promised to kiss Lucy if she...what?
[Hit a home run]
2b. Has Schroeder ever actually kissed Lucy? If so, when?
[Yes, when she remembered Beethoven's birthday. This is not as obscure
as it used to be because the event is captured on the cover of one of the
new Hallmark gift books.]
3. Describe three times that Schroeder's piano has been lost or
destroyed.
[Lucy threw it down a sewer; Lucy threw it into a kite-eating tree;
it was crushed by a cannonball that Snoopy and his bird friend
fired]
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) She pretended to give ten thousand dollars and then laughed. (b) When
Schroeder told her that the memorial was for ``the greatest composer who
ever lived,'' she
told him that they'd already built a memorial to Stephen Foster.
(c) He (or his bust) allegedly smiled at Schroeder.]
5. Schroeder once quit baseball to concentrate on the piano. What
repercussions did this have?
[Everyone else quit too]
6a. What was Schroeder's reaction the first time he encountered a real
piano?
[He cried]
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!'']
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]
(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]
(c) It's all right...I can still 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.]
(d) Nice catch, ``dear-heart''!
[Lucy snapping his catcher's mask onto his face after he complained about
her calling him ``dear-heart'']
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