Q 01/05

The Choctaw and Chickasaw call stickball, lacrosse's cousin, the 'little brother of' what?

A) Thunder

B) War

C) Hunting

D) Harvest

Answer · why

B) War

War: when a dispute arose over land or politics, the elders would name a field and settle it with a game of stickball rather than a battle.

Q 02/05

Which French Jesuit missionary, writing about Huron ball games in the 1630s, is credited with naming lacrosse?

A) Samuel de Champlain

B) Jean de Brébeuf

C) Isaac Jogues

D) Jacques Marquette

Answer · why

B) Jean de Brébeuf

Jean de Brébeuf is often said to have seen a bishop's crosier, la crosse in French, in the players' curved sticks, yet his own journals never make the...

Q 03/05

The Mississippi River city of La Crosse, named after the Indigenous game, is in which US state?

A) Minnesota

B) Iowa

C) Wisconsin

D) Illinois

Answer · why

C) Wisconsin

Wisconsin: explorer Zebulon Pike wrote the name Prairie La Crosse on his 1805 trip up the river, after the ball game Native Americans played on the op...

Q 04/05

Indigenous nations described lacrosse as being played 'for' whom?

A) The chief

B) The ancestors

C) The sun

D) The Creator

Answer · why

D) The Creator

The Creator: many Indigenous nations call lacrosse the Creator's Game, played to honour and entertain the Creator and as medicine for healing.

Q 05/05

In traditional Indigenous lacrosse, which could involve hundreds of players, the ball could not be touched with what?

A) Their feet

B) Their hands

C) Their heads

D) Their knees

Answer · why

B) Their hands

Their hands: the ball was carried and thrown only with the stick, on open ground with no boundaries and goals up to several miles apart, so one game c...