Who, What, When, Where, Why and How III

A “Who, What, When, Where, Why and How” which all relate to today, 26 April.

1. Who, born 26 April 1886, in Columbus, Georgia, US; performed as Ma Rainey and was known as the “Mother of the blues”?
   • Beatrice Rutledge
   • Gertrude Pridgett
   • Hortense Gwinnett
2. What best describes Petrarch, who climbed Mount Ventoux today in 1336 and, at some point, wrote about it?
   • Poet
   • Politician
   • Pundit
3. When did the Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry?
   • 1557
   • 1607
   • 1657
4. Where, during World War II, was senior Nazi Rudolf Hess—born today in 1894—captured?
   • Scotland
   • Sweden
   • Switzerland
5. Why were twelve thousand people in Canada left without a home on this date in 1900?
   • Avalanche
   • Fire
   • Flood
6. How did John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, die?
   • Hanging
   • Gunshot
   • Drowning

Good luck! I will post the answers later today.