History by Letter - F

Can you name these historical people, places, and things beginning with the letter F?

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First submitted	May 26, 2014
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Hint	Answer
Gunpowder plotter	Guy Fawkes
Austrian founder of psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud
War between Argentina and the UK	Falklands War
Symbol on the French coat-of-arms	Fleur-de-lis
Medieval system of lords and vassals	Feudalism
What Spain ceded to the US in 1819	Florida
Style of mural painting popular in Renaissance Italy	Fresco
Chinese imperial palace, 1420–1912	Forbidden City
Term for a brash, bobbed-hair woman of the Jazz Age	Flapper
Spiritual and exercise movement brutally suppressed by China	Falun Gong
Jewish diarist who hid in an Amsterdam attic	Anne Frank

Hint	Answer
City of the Medici	Florence
Tragedy by Goethe about a bargain with the Devil	Faust
His assassination started WWI	Franz Ferdinand
Society with a "Scottish Rite"	Freemasonry
Penicillin discoverer	Alexander Fleming
Founding father on the $100 bill	Benjamin Franklin
Another name for the Colosseum	Flavian Amphitheatre
Mussolini's "ism"	Fascism
Nixon's successor	Gerald Ford
Englishman who discovered electromagnetism	Michael Faraday
Revolution that started in 1789	French Revolution

Level 43

Jun 19, 2014

I'm glad to see that Falun Gong gets a mention here, since most people aren't aware of that modern-day (ongoing) genocide. But then it was spoiled when I saw the percentages, reminding me that still hardly anyone is aware of it.

Level 69

Apr 20, 2015

Yeah, I knew it was fa-something-gong, but didn't know "lun"

Level 33

Dec 5, 2016

Spent over half a minute trying different spellings, failed. Can't you accept gong alone? Most people will misspell the first element, I suspect.

Level 70

Jan 5, 2019

On the sidewalks and streets of NYC, they used to raise awareness for their plight by posing themselves in cages or tied up in torture scenarios. Close by would be a sign explaining the unsettling scene. Years later I remember it.

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Level 83

Aug 23, 2019

Interestingly in the United States they've now found success pushing Trump and Alex Jones-style whacko conspiracy theories in their newspaper and online and are now the single biggest funder of pro-Trump political ads on Facebook outside of the Trump campaign. Their religion is downright kooky and exploitative, too. Maybe the Chinese government had their reasons for going after them.

Level ∞

Oct 26, 2023

This is troubling reasoning.

It reads to me as "anything is allowed as long as it's against my political opponent".

People with kooky or unscientific beliefs have rights too. Let's all try to be a bit more tolerant.

Level 72

Jan 3, 2020

I thought it was foot binding honestly

Level 37

Feb 9, 2020

Knew it, just couldn't spell it; kept trying falung gong, falun jung...

Level 34

Nov 6, 2023

falun gong is a cult that doesn't let their members use medicine and believe that biracial people are subhuman. was the jonestown investigation a genocide? stop spreading propaganda

Level 83

Jul 11, 2014

I read "gunpowder plotter" as "gunpowder plot" and kept typing in Fifth of November, then tried Fifth of December and September just to cover my bases.

Level 33

Jul 11, 2014

Excellent quiz... really made me think.

Level 45

Sep 2, 2014

I'll have a hard time forgetting the feudal system after reading a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip related to it. Calvin is writing an essay which reads 'In the Middle Ages, lords and vassals lived in a futile system.' Hobbes walks by and points out, 'That's "Feudal system".' Calvin looks bewildered, and then rests his head in his hands, grumbling, 'Just when I thought this junk was beginning to make sense.' It was very funny.

Level 74

Nov 28, 2015

Can you add "US" to the founding father question? That way people outside your country know where you're referring to.

Level 82

Dec 5, 2015

Is there anyone referred to as a "founding father" in any other country that uses $100 bills?

Level 68

Dec 4, 2016

NZ $100 features Lord Ernest Rutherford, "Father of the Atom". Not an F name though.

Level 79

Aug 8, 2017

..unless his middle name was Ruther.

Level 59

Dec 4, 2016

Got the Jewish diarist thanks to Benjamin!!

Level 55

Oct 16, 2017

Howard Florey was the co-developed Penicillin and shared the Nobel Prize with Fleming for doing so (along with Sir Ernst Boris Chain whose name obviously doesn't begin with F).

Florey should be an answer here.

Level 82

Apr 28, 2018

Florey developed the production and use of penicillin, but he wasn't involved in discovering it, which is what the question asks about.

Level 74

Apr 24, 2018

Faraday did not discover electromagnetism. his work was a part of the general EM theory by Maxwell. you may credit him for creating the first electric engine and conducting successfull research on them but not discovered EM more than Ampere or Gauss did.

Level 91

Dec 1, 2021

I struggled to come up with him for the clue as well. Spent a good minute trying to make William Gilbert start with an F, though he doesn't really fit the clue either.

Level 55

Aug 24, 2023

I was thinking Hans Christian Oersted.

+10

Level 67

Jan 3, 2020

For "Spiritual and exercise movement brutally suppressed by China", please accept "Freedom of Speech".

Level 67

Jan 3, 2020

Ha. Nice.

Level 34

Nov 6, 2023

haha, so true bestie. nothing happened at kent state.

Level 54

Feb 20, 2020

Ahh Ben Franklin, the greatest President of the US (the oldest country ever). So glad he is recognized for many things, including inventing freedom and electricity!

Level 77

Jul 31, 2020

I had never heard of flapper. You learn stuff on here.

Level 68

Jan 29, 2021

There has not been a fleur de lys on the French coat of arms since at least 1831! The modern coat-of-arms, which is in official use, although not legally recognised "depicts a lictor's fasces upon branches of laurel and oak, as well as a ribbon bearing the national motto Liberté, égalité, fraternité." In France, the fleur-de-lys is regarded strictly as a symbol of the monarchy, and no institution of the Republic would ever use one! Could you please reword the clue? You could for instance ask for the pre-revolutionary coat of arms, or the coat of arms of the French monarchy. Thanks!

Level 91

Dec 1, 2021

Every time I read the French national motto, I'm reminded of my semester learning the language, and the girl who sat behind me asserting that everything French was romantic simply because it was French. I can still see the teacher banging his head repeatedly on his desk after she repeated the motto as "Liberté, égalité, fertilité."

Level 75

Apr 7, 2021

Just wanted to point out that typing "Franklin" gets you Anne Frank for free.

Level 70

May 12, 2021

Falun Gong is a cult, they believe in racially segregated heavens, aliens possessing humans, and have a newspaper that publishes antisemitic conspiracy theories. They're not victims.

Level 64

Dec 1, 2021

Yeah this is a really odd stance. This would be like saying America brutally suppressed Jim Jones's People's Temple or NXIVM or something like that.

Level 70

Dec 1, 2021

Falun Gong might be a discreditable cult, but that doesn't mean that its suppression in China isn't "brutal". Finding the truth about what happens in China is messy, but it's pretty clear that at least tens of thousands were imprisoned just for being members, and thousands summarily executed or otherwise killed in prison.

NXIVM wasn't "suppressed", let alone brutally: the handful of members who have been imprisoned were so treated after conviction of serious sexual crimes.

The only government action taken against the People's Temple was the beginning of a Congressional investigation and visit.

Your analogy is absolutely terrible, and terribly inapt.

As for the question: whether Falun Gong's suppression is "brutal" is independent of whether the cult holds offensive or wacky beliefs or engages in grossly discriminatory claims. At most, the question lacks nuance, but how much nuance is it reasonable to expect from a trivia quiz question?

Level ∞

Oct 26, 2023

I commented something similar above, but I'll repeat it here.

Tolerance means "tolerating" people who are inconvenient or different. If the only people you tolerate are the ones that agree with you, then that's not toleration at all.

Saying it's okay to arbitrarily jail and torture people because they are a "cult" (not sure the accuracy of that) is the road to tyranny. Even kooky weirdos have rights.

Level 63

Sep 8, 2021

Please could you rephrase the question for 'flapper '? 'brash' is unpleasantly sexist

Level 60

Dec 1, 2021

Electromagnetism wasn't discovered by Faraday, he made significant discoveries in the field, but EM itself was discovered by the Dane H.C. Orsted...

Level 60

Dec 2, 2021

'Scottish rite' seems unnecessarily obscure as a clue to freemasonry - except to the Scots presumably.

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