Q 01/05

Which of the five Great Lakes is named after the French word for the Wendat and Wyandot people?

A) Lake Erie

B) Lake Superior

C) Lake Huron

D) Lake Michigan

Answer · why

C) Lake Huron

Lake Huron takes its name from the label French explorers gave the Wendat who lived near its shores. The same explorers also called it the fresh-water...

Q 02/05

Which farm animal has an American breed called the Wyandotte, developed in the 1870s and named after the Wyandot people?

A) Chicken

B) Horse

C) Sheep

D) Dairy cow

Answer · why

A) Chicken

Chicken breeders in the United States named the Wyandotte for the Wyandot people. The bird lays brown eggs and was first known as the American Sebrigh...

Q 03/05

Which stick-and-ball sport is said to have been named by the missionary Jean de Brébeuf after watching Wendat players?

A) Hockey

B) Cricket

C) Baseball

D) Lacrosse

Answer · why

D) Lacrosse

Lacrosse is said to owe its name to Brébeuf, who thought the players' sticks looked like a bishop's crosier, la crosse in French. He watched Wendat me...

Q 04/05

Wendat and Wyandot farmers grew the Three Sisters, a trio of maize, beans and which other crop?

A) Wheat

B) Squash

C) Potatoes

D) Barley

Answer · why

B) Squash

Squash completed the Three Sisters, the mainstay of the Wendat diet. Growers raised several varieties of each plant and saved the seeds of the best.

Q 05/05

Which large shared homes, each sheltering many related families, did the Wendat and Wyandot build in their villages?

A) Tipis

B) Earth lodges

C) Longhouses

D) Wigwams

Answer · why

C) Longhouses

Longhouses filled a typical Wendat town, which had 30 or 40 of them and was home to 900 people or more. One building could hold twenty families.