The Ultimate Female Spy Quiz

The French put this exotic dancer on trail for spying for Germany. Though the evidence was scant, Mata Hari was executed by France in 1917.

We'll never know if this detail was fanciful rumor or not, but Mata Hari allegedly blew a kiss to the firing squad before they shot her.

Seduction is a classic espionage technique, and these missions are often referred to as honey traps.

All we know about Agent 355 is that she was a woman who helped bring down Benedict Arnold.

Mammy Kate organized a mission to free Stephen Heard, who would go on to become a governor of Georgia, when he was captured by the British. She secured a job at his jail as a laundress, and one day, she put Heard in the basket and walked out of the jail -- balancing the basket on her head!

If you saw a black petticoat on Anna Strong's clothesline, it meant that she was signaling her fellow spies that their contact was in town and they should report to him.

World War II spy Virginia Hall had an artificial leg, but she still managed to undertake physically arduous tasks and evade authorities, even when the Gestapo put up posters seeking "the lady with the limp."

Virginia Hall's artificial leg went by Cuthbert; when she was fleeing on foot from Nazis, Hall messaged her superiors that she was having trouble with her leg. The response? "If Cuthbert is giving you difficulty, have him eliminated."

Julia Child worked for the Office of Strategic Services (a precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency) in World War II. She helped solve the problem of sharks butting their heads against ships and explosives.

Because of her celebrity, Josephine Baker was barely searched at checkpoints while she traveled Europe. And even when she was checked, it would have been hard for investigators to find that invisible ink!

Van Lew earned the nickname "Crazy Bet" for her methods.

Edmonds dressed as a white man named Frank Thompson to join the Army and as a black man named Cuff to spy on the South.

Bowser pretended to be illiterate and slow, but in reality she was reading documents that President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis left lying around and reporting the information to the Union.

Marlene Dietrich, who was born in Germany but became an American citizen in 1939, offered up her artistic skills for psychological warfare against the Germans.

Lauwers created fake letters that made it seem like German women would sleep with any German soldier who flashed the League of Lonely War Women's logo. The plan was designed to lower the German morale by making them suspect the worst of their wives, sisters and mothers. The plot was so successful that several newspapers reported on the league as if it was fact.

Operation Sauerkraut was considered a great success; not only was tons of negative propaganda nailed to trees and street signs, but the operatives returned with useful information for the Allies.

The game was inspired by World War II spy Violette Szabo, though the character's name is Violette Summer.

Nancy Wake was honored by several countries for her service during World War II, making her one of the most decorated servicewomen of the war.

The Venona project deciphered much of the intelligence about the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Elizabeth Bentley spied for the Soviet Union for seven years, but she defected from the Communist Party in 1945 and revealed the names of many KGB agents to the United States.