ANSWERS

1. A. The comic strip’s name SCHULZ had wanted to call his comic Li’l Folks or Good Old Charlie Brown, but the newspaper syndicate to which he submitted it called it Peanuts. Schulz said: ‘It has no meaning, is simply confusing — and has no dignity.’

2) C. Merchandise included baby wipes, ashtrays, vitamins and ice skates

BY THE time of Schulz’s death, there were 20,000 new Peanuts-branded products every year, but the cartoon never appeared on baby wipes, ashtrays, vitamins or ice skates during his lifetime. The Louvre dressed Snoopy in couture in 1990, for a gala to launch an exhibition of Schulz’s work.

3) TRUE

SCHULZ died, aged 77, hours before his last cartoon ran in the Sunday papers. In total, he drew 17,897 strips over 50 years.

4) B. Nasa

IN 1969, Apollo 10 astronauts nicknamed their lunar module Snoopy. Schulz’s son said it was ‘the proudest moment in his career’. Nasa gives the Silver Snoopy for ‘outstanding achievements related to human flight safety or mission success’.

5) 1C Schulz was given the nickname Sparky

by his uncle, after an endearing race horse called Spark Plug, who featured in American comic strip Barney Google. 2A Schulz spotted another dog cartoon character called Sniffy, and remembered that his mother had once said the next family dog should be called Snoopy. 3B A cartoon of Spike was the first thing Schulz got published, when he was 15.

6) C. Ronald Reagan

THE US president once wrote a fan letter to Schulz making the admission. O GOOD Grief, Charlie Brown! runs at Somerset House, London, until March 3