(Mental Floss) -- Over the centuries, people have had some very good reasons to dress up like a member of the opposite sex. 

After record-setting Olympics athlete Stella Walsh died in 1980, it was revealed that she had indeed been a man. 

And I'm not talking about people who live this way out of personal preference, or those who dress up for theater and entertainment. 

Here are just five examples. 

1. Cross-dressing to join the army 

Until recently, women have rarely been allowed to serve as soldiers. 

So what was a gal to do if she wanted to serve her country? Naturally, disguise herself as a man and join the troops. 

At least 400 Civil War soldiers were women in drag. These included Union Army soldier "Frank Thompson" (also known as Sarah Edmonds), whose small frame and feminine mannerisms (rather than causing suspicion) made her an ideal spy, as she could spy on the Confederates disguised as... a woman! 

She wasn't the first woman to don a male disguise and join the army, though. During the Revolutionary War, women fought as men on both sides. 

Hannah Snell, for example, joined the British army to find her husband, who had walked out on her to enlist. 

Once her true sex was discovered (thanks to a pesky groin injury), she became a national celebrity in Britain, and made a post-war career of performing in bars as the "Female Warrior." Mental Floss: The Confederacy's plan to conquer Latin America 

2. Cross-dressing to keep a royal family together  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What is the name of the athlete that died and was then revealed to be a man?
2. What athlete was revealed to be a man following her death?
3. 
Q2:
1. What year did Stella Walsh die?
2. Stella Walsh died in what year?
3. 
Q3:
1. What is the total number of civil war soldiers that were actually women in drag?
2. How many soldiers during the civil war were found to actually be women in drag?
3. 
Q4:
1. What name did Frank Thompson use when he disguised as a woman?
2. What was Frank Thompson pseudonym while disguised as a woman in the army?
3. 
Q5:
1. Was Sarah Edmonds the first male to disguise as a woman in the army?
2. 
3. 
Q6:
1. What is the name of the war where women fought as men?
2. Which war  had women desguised as men?
3. 
Q7:
1. What is the name of the woman that joined the British Army?
2. Which woman in the text joined the British Army?
3. 
Q8:
1. Why did Hannah Snell join the British Army?
2. What reason did Hannah Snell have for joining the British Army?
3. 
Q9:
1. What led to the discovery of Hannah Snell's gender?
2. How did people in the British Army discover Hannah Snell's gender?
3. 
Q10:
1. What did people call Hannah Snell following the discovery of her gender?
2. What nickname was given to Hannah Snell when people discovered that she was actually a woman in disguise?
3. 
