Q 01/05

In some tellings, the wendigo of Ojibwe and Cree legend has a heart made of which substance?

A) Stone

B) Ice

C) Iron

D) Ash

Answer · why

B) Ice

Ice at the creature's core suits a being tied to cold, famine and the far north. Some legends say the heart has to be cut out and melted before the mo...

Q 02/05

Which Stephen King novel hides a wendigo in the Maine woods beyond an ancient burial ground?

A) Pet Sematary

B) Salem's Lot

C) The Dark Half

D) Bag of Bones

Answer · why

A) Pet Sematary

Pet Sematary makes the wendigo the force fueling the burial ground that brings the dead back wrong. King gives the creature yellow-grey eyes and ram's...

Q 03/05

In Ojibwe lore, what happens to a wendigo each time it eats a person, leaving it forever hungry?

A) It falls asleep

B) It loses its sight

C) It grows larger

D) It grows younger

Answer · why

C) It grows larger

It grows larger in proportion to each meal, so its stomach can never be filled. That is why the monster is pictured as a glutton who is also painfully...

Q 04/05

Which TV drama sent its monster-hunting brothers after a wendigo in Colorado in its second episode?

A) Warehouse 13

B) The X-Files

C) Sleepy Hollow

D) Supernatural

Answer · why

D) Supernatural

Supernatural called the 2005 episode simply Wendigo and finished the creature off with a flare gun. Creator Eric Kripke disliked the final design, lik...

Q 05/05

Marvel's Wendigo, a silver-furred monster born of a cannibal's curse, first fought which superhero?

A) The Hulk

B) Daredevil

C) Spider-Man

D) Iron Man

Answer · why

A) The Hulk

The Hulk met the creature in a 1973 issue of his own comic. Writer Steve Englehart said its strength and its sad story made the monster sound like a g...