Q 01/05

Bigfoot sightings and folklore are most closely tied to which region?

A) The Pacific Northwest

B) The Florida Everglades

C) The Appalachians

D) The Great Plains

Answer · why

A) 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...

Q 02/05

The word 'Sasquatch' is an anglicised version of a Salish word usually translated as what?

A) Forest giant

B) Hairy man

C) Rock thrower

D) Night walker

Answer · why

B) 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...

Q 03/05

Which US agency was sent suspected Bigfoot hairs in 1976 and concluded they came from a deer?

A) The FBI

B) The CIA

C) The Forest Service

D) The Fish and Wildlife Service

Answer · why

A) 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 vi...

Q 04/05

What term covers creatures like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, whose existence has never been proven?

A) Cryptids

B) Chimeras

C) Hominids

D) Relicts

Answer · why

A) 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 05/05

What did logging contractor Ray Wallace's family reveal after his death in 2002?

A) A collection of carved wooden feet

B) A skull they called a Bigfoot's

C) Reels of never-shown footage

D) A diary of nightly sightings

Answer · why

A) 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 th...