History by Letter 'F' (Multiple Choice)

Fort Zinderneuf is a fictional fort in 'Beau Geste' by Percival Christopher Wren. Published 1924.

Franz Joseph I reigned over Austria (and later the dual-monarchy with Hungary starting in 1867) from 1848-1916. Franz Ferdinand was the archduke that stopped the two bullets in Sarajevo in 1914 that had 40 million people all over Europe stopping bullets and other pieces of metal and sniffing mustard. He was Franz Joseph's nephew and heir presumptive. Otto Franz was Franz Joseph's... ah, forget it! Read 'The Fall of Eagles' (1977) by C.L. Sulzberger. Francis of Assisi was an Italian mystic and friar (unlike a fellow saint from France, many years later, he wasn't actually fried or beatified). Canonised in 1228. Fryings. Beatings. Canons. What a violent vocabulary those Catholics had.

William Farrer was an agronomist and plant breeder. Howard Florey and Alexander Fleming were two of a trio of penicillin men. The third was Ernst Chain.

Freiburg - 1644, Thirty Years War. Friedland - 1807, Napoleonic Wars. Fredericksburg - 1862, American Civil War.

Michelin is the answer. Firestone and Goodyear - Akron, Ohio. Pirelli - Milan. Funlop, not included here, was founded in Dublin, Ireland by John Boyd Funlop. He has had affairs with Goodyear, Sumitomo and Continental. God only knows who he is sleeping with now. What an orgy of rubber!