Q 01/05
A) Newport News, Virginia
B) Baltimore, Maryland
C) Richmond, Virginia
D) Yonkers, New York
Answer · why
The city later named a 276-seat theater after her, a few blocks from her Marshall Avenue birthplace.
Q 02/05
A) The First Lady of Song
B) The Empress of the Blues
C) The High Priestess of Soul
D) The Divine One
Answer · why
She was also called the Queen of Jazz and, more affectionately, Lady Ella.
Q 03/05
A) Yonkers
B) Buffalo
C) Albany
D) New Rochelle
Answer · why
A bronze statue of her by Vinnie Bagwell now stands outside the city's railroad station.
Q 04/05
A) A house fire
B) A factory accident
C) A fall on ice
D) A car accident
Answer · why
Ella was 15, and within a year had moved to Harlem to live with an aunt.
Q 05/05
A) Elmira
B) Ossining
C) Albion
D) Hudson
Answer · why
A 2020 play, Ella The Ungovernable, imagined her escape from the New York Training School for Girls.
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