Bigfoot Trivia
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99 free Bigfoot trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Bigfoot trivia quiz covers the whole legend: where the names Bigfoot and Sasquatch come from, the 1958 Humboldt County footprints and the carved wooden feet found in a basement 44 years later, the Ape Canyon 'attack' of 1924, and the 59.5 seconds of film Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin shot at Bluff Creek in 1967. It also digs into the regional cousins (the skunk ape, the Fouke Monster, the Mogollon Monster), the frozen-costume hoax of 2008, the DNA study that came back mostly bear, the Washington county that made killing a Sasquatch a felony, and what Jane Goodall actually said when asked. There is a round on Bigfoot in pop culture too, from Harry and the Hendersons to Finding Bigfoot. Questions run from easy (which region Bigfoot is associated with) to expert (the frame number everyone argues about). Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01Bigfoot sightings and folklore are most closely tied to which region?
The Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest. Sightings cluster in its forests, where Indigenous peoples told stories of such creatures long before a newspaper made 'Bigfoot' a sensation.
Q 02The word 'Sasquatch' is an anglicised version of a Salish word usually translated as what?
Hairy man
Hairy man. The Halq'emeylem word is sasq'ets, sometimes rendered 'wild man'; it reached English when a government agent wrote up stories his Sts'ailes neighbours had told him.
Q 03Which US agency was sent suspected Bigfoot hairs in 1976 and concluded they came from a deer?
The FBI
The FBI. Bigfoot hunter Peter Byrne mailed in about 15 hairs in 1976; the lab's verdict was 'deer family origin', and the file stayed out of public view until 2019.
Q 04What term covers creatures like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, whose existence has never been proven?
Cryptids
Cryptids. The word is far younger than the legends: it was coined in 1983 in a newsletter for enthusiasts, as a soberer label than 'monster'.
Q 05What did logging contractor Ray Wallace's family reveal after his death in 2002?
A collection of carved wooden feet
A collection of carved wooden feet. His family said he had a friend carve the 16-inch soles, stamped the 1958 tracks with them as a prank, and kept the secret for 44 years.
Q 06Which wrestler played Bigfoot in a two-part episode of the TV series The Six Million Dollar Man?
André the Giant
André the Giant. It was his first American acting role; when Bigfoot came back to the show, the suit passed to Ted Cassidy, Lurch from The Addams Family.
Q 07How long is the famous 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film?
About 60 seconds
About 60 seconds. A flustered Patterson filmed on the move as the figure walked away, which is why much of the footage is so shaky.
Q 08At which Northern California site was the Patterson-Gimlin film shot?
Bluff Creek
Bluff Creek. The same creek is where the 1958 'Bigfoot' tracks turned up, which sceptics count as one reason to doubt the film.
Q 09Retired Pepsi bottler Bob Heironimus came forward to claim what part in the famous 1967 Bigfoot film?
He wore the ape suit
He wore the ape suit. Heironimus says Roger Patterson promised to pay him and never did; Bob Gimlin, who was there that day, has always denied taking part in any hoax.
Q 10The Yowie is which country's counterpart to Bigfoot?
Australia
Australia. The yowie is famous enough at home that Cadbury turned it into a children's chocolate, which sold in the tens of millions there in the 1990s.
Q 11In an early episode of which animated series is the dad captured and studied by scientists as Bigfoot?
The Simpsons
The Simpsons. A mud-covered Homer is caught on film, tranquillised by hunters and tested by scientists, who cannot decide whether he is a below-average man or a brilliant beast.
Q 12By their own account, what were Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin doing when they filmed 'Bigfoot' in 1967?
Shooting a docudrama on the legend
Shooting a docudrama on the legend. Sceptics find the timing convenient: a promoter trying to make a Bigfoot film rode straight into the clearest one ever shot.
Q 13The 1924 "Ape Canyon" incident, in which prospectors said ape-men attacked their cabin, was near which mountain?
Q 21Which state's Bigfoot is known as the Mogollon Monster?
Arizona
Arizona. Sightings cluster along the Mogollon Rim that gives it its name, and the first printed report, in 1903, described a clawed wild man with a beard to his knees.
Q 22The film The Legend of Boggy Creek dramatised 'Fouke Monster' sightings near Texarkana, in which state?
Arkansas
Arkansas. The low-budget film was shot around the town of Fouke with eyewitnesses playing themselves, and it carried a local monster story to drive-ins across the country.
Q 23What did the 2008 Georgia 'Bigfoot body' turn out to be when it was thawed?
A costume with rubber feet
Mount St. Helens
Mount St. Helens. Forest rangers who climbed into the gorge found nothing and showed how the giant footprints by the cabin could be faked, yet the story kept spreading.
Q 14What did the Ape Canyon prospectors say the creatures threw at their cabin?
Large rocks
Large rocks. The miners said the creatures pelted the cabin all night after one of the men shot one of them that day, and the party fled at dawn.
Q 15Which US president recounted a trapper's tale of a foul-smelling bipedal creature in his 1893 The Wilderness Hunter?
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt. He called it a goblin story, told by an old mountain hunter named Bauman who could hardly repress a shudder as he described how the creature killed his trapping partner.
Q 16Prospector Albert Ostman claimed a Bigfoot carried him off one night in 1924 while he lay in what?
Sleeping bag
Sleeping bag. Ostman said a Sasquatch family then held him for six days, but he did not go public with the story for 33 years, one reason sceptics doubt it.
Q 17Which animal do scientists say is most often mistaken for Bigfoot?
Black bear
Black bear. A 2009 study found that the range predicted from Bigfoot reports all but matches black bear habitat, and the bears will stand upright on their hind legs.
Q 18In a 2014 Oxford genetic study of supposed Bigfoot and Yeti hairs, the only sample from a primate came from which species?
Human
Human. The hair, sent in from Texas as Bigfoot's, was the lone primate among 30 samples; others matched horses, cows, raccoons, a sheep and a porcupine.
Q 19Some believers suggest Bigfoot descends from which extinct Asian ape, known only from fossil teeth and jawbones?
Gigantopithecus
Gigantopithecus. It was a cousin of the orangutan, and no fossil of it, or of any other ape, has ever been found in the Americas.
Q 20What is Florida's version of Bigfoot called?
The Skunk ape
The Skunk ape. It is named for the stench witnesses describe, and in 1977 Florida lawmakers considered, and rejected, a bill to make harming one illegal.
A costume with rubber feet. Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton had been paid $50,000 for the frozen 'body'; once it thawed, the head proved hollow and the buyer set out to sue.
Q 24Oklahoma's 2021 multimillion-dollar Bigfoot bounty would be paid only if the creature was what?
Caught alive and unharmed
Caught alive and unharmed. The lawmaker behind it had first proposed an official Bigfoot hunting season to lure tourists to south-eastern Oklahoma, then stressed that nobody wanted to hurt the creature.
Q 25Sceptics think the Skookum cast, a body print taken in Washington in 2000, was left by which animal?
An elk
An elk. Most hairs lifted from the cast were elk hair, though the team that made it argued a Bigfoot had lain in the mud to reach bait fruit without leaving tracks.
Q 26What did a 1969 law in Skamania County, Washington, make the killing of a Bigfoot?
A felony
A felony. The ordinance was passed on April 1 and carried up to five years in jail, yet it was no April Fool's joke: the county revised it in 1984 and created a Sasquatch refuge.
Q 27Which famous scientist told NPR in 2002, 'I'm sure that they exist,' when asked about Bigfoot?
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall. The chimpanzee researcher added that she was a romantic who had always wanted them to exist, and later admitted it was strange that no hide or hair had ever turned up.
Q 28Which town calls itself the 'Bigfoot Capital of the World' and holds an annual Bigfoot Daze festival?
Willow Creek, California
Willow Creek, California. The town trades on the famous 1967 film shot in the forest to its north; Jefferson, Texas, settled for proclaiming itself 'Bigfoot Capital of Texas'.
Q 29Which Finding Bigfoot cast member runs the North American Bigfoot Center in Boring, Oregon?
Cliff Barackman
Cliff Barackman. The show's evidence analyst trained as a jazz guitarist, and he and his wife now run the museum, which they bill as the region's largest public display of Bigfoot evidence.
Q 30What slang term for hunting Bigfoot was popularised by the Animal Planet series Finding Bigfoot?
Squatching
Squatching. A crew member called it 'camping with a purpose', though after seven years on air the show's team had still not found their quarry.