Q 01/05

In which city was Ella Fitzgerald born in 1917?

A) Newport News, Virginia

B) Baltimore, Maryland

C) Richmond, Virginia

D) Norfolk, Virginia

Answer · why

A) Newport News, Virginia

Newport News, Virginia, was home only briefly: her parents separated and her mother took her north to New York while she was still a small child.

Q 02/05

Which nickname was Fitzgerald most often given?

A) The First Lady of Song

B) The Empress of the Blues

C) The High Priestess of Soul

D) The Divine One

Answer · why

A) The First Lady of Song

The First Lady of Song was honoured in kind: when the Society of Singers created its top career award, it named the prize the Ella and made her its fi...

Q 03/05

In which New York city did Ella Fitzgerald grow up?

A) Yonkers

B) Buffalo

C) Albany

D) New Rochelle

Answer · why

A) Yonkers

Yonkers became home when her mother moved north with Joseph da Silva, a Portuguese immigrant, and Ella excelled at school there until her mother's dea...

Q 04/05

After her mother died in 1932, the teenage Ella Fitzgerald went to live with which relative in Harlem?

A) An aunt

B) Her grandmother

C) An older brother

D) Her father

Answer · why

A) An aunt

An aunt, her mother's sister, took her in, but the once model pupil began skipping school; years later the same aunt raised Ella's adopted son while s...

Q 05/05

As a troubled teenager, Fitzgerald was sent to a state reformatory school in which New York town?

A) Elmira

B) Ossining

C) Albion

D) Hudson

Answer · why

D) Hudson

A 2020 play, Ella The Ungovernable, imagined her escape from the New York Training School for Girls.