Q 01/05

Besides sport, in what domestic skill did Babe compete, making many of her own golfing outfits?

A) Knitting

B) Sewing

C) Embroidery

D) Crochet

Answer · why

B) Sewing

Sewing was a point of pride: by her own account a dress she made took a prize at the Texas State Fair, though her biographers trace the ribbon to a sm...

Q 02/05

Which instrument did Babe play in her vaudeville act after the 1932 Olympics?

A) Banjo

B) Ukulele

C) Harmonica

D) Accordion

Answer · why

C) Harmonica

Harmonica tunes and a run on a treadmill were part of the act, a brief turn on the vaudeville stage that turned her Olympic fame into money her family...

Q 03/05

In which Texas refinery town, also Janis Joplin's home town, was Babe Didrikson born?

A) Galveston

B) Corpus Christi

C) Brownsville

D) Port Arthur

Answer · why

D) Port Arthur

Port Arthur is where her father, a seaman and ship's carpenter, had settled; he later rigged up a backyard gym for his seven children, with a broomsti...

Q 04/05

From which country had Babe's parents Hannah and Ole emigrated?

A) Sweden

B) Norway

C) Denmark

D) Germany

Answer · why

B) Norway

Norway is also where her mother had been an accomplished skater, and the family name was spelled Didriksen until Babe changed the ending herself.

Q 05/05

Babe Didrikson said she got her nickname after hitting five of what in one childhood game?

A) Home runs

B) Holes-in-one

C) Free throws

D) Bullseyes

Answer · why

A) Home runs

Home runs, five in one game, made her 'Babe' after Babe Ruth in her telling, but the name may owe as much to her mother, who had called her 'Baby' sin...