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50 free Bigfoot trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 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 01Which region of North America is most associated with Bigfoot?
The Pacific Northwest
Washington state alone has more than 2,000 reported sightings in the BFRO database.
Q 02The word 'Sasquatch' is an anglicised version of a word meaning what?
Hairy man
J. W. Burns coined it in 1929 from the Halq'emeylem word sasq'ets.
Q 03Who coined the term Sasquatch in a 1929 Maclean's magazine article?
J. W. Burns
He was an Indian agent and teacher who lived with the Sts'ailes Nation in British Columbia.
Q 04In which year did 'Bigfoot' spread after loggers found huge footprints in Humboldt County?
1958
Bulldozer operator Jerry Crew appeared on the front page of the Humboldt Times holding a plaster cast.
Q 05What did the family of Ray Wallace reveal after his death in 2002?
A collection of carved wooden feet
They said he had secretly made the 1958 tracks that gave Bigfoot its name.
Q 06Which reporter for the Humboldt Times introduced the name 'Bigfoot' to the wider press in 1958?
Andrew Genzoli
He soon heard from the New York Times and Los Angeles Times.
Q 07How long is the famous 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film?
About 60 seconds
It runs 59.5 seconds and remains the most analysed piece of Bigfoot footage.
Q 08At which Northern California site was the Patterson-Gimlin film shot?
Bluff Creek
The exact site was lost after foliage regrew following a 1964 flood and was only rediscovered in 2011.
Q 09What nickname did the figure in the Patterson-Gimlin film acquire?
Patty
Patterson and Gimlin tracked her for a mile or more after the encounter.
Q 10The famous look-back at the camera in the Patterson-Gimlin film is at which frame number?
352
The film has 952 frames in all.
Q 11What kind of camera did Roger Patterson use, rented from a Yakima camera shop?
A 16 mm Cine-Kodak
He kept it past the rental period and an arrest warrant was issued for him three days before the filming.
Q 12What were Patterson and Gimlin doing in the woods that day, by their own account?
Shooting a docudrama on the legend
The planned film had cowboys, an old miner and Gimlin in a wig as an Indian tracker.
Q 13The 1924 "Ape Canyon" incident, in which prospectors said ape-men attacked their cabin, was near which mountain?
Mount St. Helens
Q 21Which state's Bigfoot is known as the Mogollon Monster?
Arizona
Missouri has Momo, Ohio the Grassman and Kentucky the Hillbilly Beast.
Q 22The 1972 horror film The Legend of Boggy Creek was inspired by sightings in which Arkansas town?
Fouke
The 1971 report of a creature reaching through a window was later deemed a hoax.
Q 23What did the 2008 Georgia 'Bigfoot body' turn out to be when it was thawed?
A costume with rubber feet
Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton had collected $50,000 for it before admitting the hoax.
The Forest Service found no evidence, and hoaxer Rant Mullens later claimed his group was responsible.
Q 14What did the Ape Canyon prospectors say the creatures threw at their cabin?
Large rocks
Fred Beck claimed he had shot one of them earlier that day.
Q 15Which US president recounted a trapper's tale of a foul-smelling bipedal creature in his 1893 The Wilderness Hunter?
Theodore Roosevelt
He noted that the man, Bauman, seemed genuinely fearful telling it.
Q 16Prospector Albert Ostman claimed a Bigfoot family held him captive for how long in 1924?
Six days
The New York Times presented his dubious tale in 1974.
Q 17Which animal do scientists say is most often mistaken for Bigfoot?
Black bear
A 2009 ecological study found Bigfoot sightings map almost exactly onto black bear habitat.
Q 18Of 30 Bigfoot and Yeti hair samples in a 2014 Oxford study, how many came from an unknown primate?
None
Most were bear; one was human, and the rest were cow, horse, dog and other familiar animals.
Q 19Which extinct giant Asian ape have some proponents suggested Bigfoot might be a surviving relative of?
Gigantopithecus
No fossils of it have ever been found in the Americas, and it is thought to have walked on all fours.
Q 20What is Florida's version of Bigfoot called?
The Skunk ape
Some suggest escaped apes could survive in the humid south-east, which is why the theory gets attached to it.
Q 24What did Pennsylvania officials say the BFRO's 2007 'juvenile Bigfoot' photos showed?
A bear with mange
The photos were taken in the Allegheny National Forest.
Q 25Sceptics think the Skookum cast, a body print taken in Washington in 2000, was left by which animal?
An elk
Believers say a Bigfoot sat in the mud to eat fruit left out during filming of a TV show.
Q 26What did a 1969 Skamania County, Washington, law make killing a Bigfoot?
A felony with up to five years in prison
It was downgraded to a misdemeanour in 1984 when the county declared itself a 'Sasquatch refuge'.
Q 27What did primatologist Jane Goodall say when asked on NPR in 2002 whether Bigfoot exists?
I'm sure that they exist
She added that she was 'a romantic' and had always wanted them to exist, but could not explain the lack of a body.
Q 28Which town calls itself the 'Bigfoot Capital of the World' and holds an annual Bigfoot Daze festival?
Willow Creek, California
Jefferson, Texas, settled for 'Bigfoot Capital of Texas' in 2018.
Q 29Which Finding Bigfoot cast member opened the North American Bigfoot Center in Boring, Oregon, in 2019?
Cliff Barackman
Moneymaker founded the BFRO, the oldest and largest Bigfoot organisation.
Q 30What slang term for hunting Bigfoot was popularised by the Animal Planet series Finding Bigfoot?
Squatching
Believers are called Squatchers or Bigfooters.