Q 01/05

The costume that made Josephine Baker a Jazz Age icon was a short skirt made of artificial what?

A) Pineapples

B) Bananas

C) Coconuts

D) Mangoes

Answer · why

B) Bananas

Bananas hung from the skirt and she wore little else but a beaded necklace. The outfit caused a sensation in Paris and became a symbol of the Roaring ...

Q 02/05

Which pet, wearing a diamond collar, often joined Josephine Baker on stage in her Paris shows?

A) A cheetah

B) A greyhound

C) A white tiger

D) A peacock

Answer · why

A) A cheetah

A cheetah named Chiquita shared her spotlight, and it frequently escaped into the orchestra pit and terrorized the musicians.

Q 03/05

As a wartime spy, Josephine Baker carried secrets written in invisible ink across borders on what?

A) Her passport

B) Theatre programmes

C) Sheet music

D) Fan letters

Answer · why

C) Sheet music

Sheet music gave her the perfect cover: a touring entertainer had every excuse to cross borders, and hers hid reports on German airfields, harbors and...

Q 04/05

What name did Josephine Baker give the twelve children she adopted from around the world?

A) The Family of Man

B) The Peace Brigade

C) The Little United Nations

D) The Rainbow Tribe

Answer · why

D) The Rainbow Tribe

The Rainbow Tribe was her living argument that children of different ethnicities and religions could grow up as brothers, and she raised them together...

Q 05/05

At which 1963 civil rights rally did Josephine Baker speak wearing her Free French uniform?

A) Detroit Walk to Freedom

B) Selma to Montgomery march

C) March on Washington

D) Birmingham Children's Crusade

Answer · why

C) March on Washington

The March on Washington heard her before the official program began, and she took the podium with her Legion of Honour medal pinned to her Free French...