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History by Letter - F

Can you name these historical people, places, and things beginning with the letter F?
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Last updated: June 21, 2019
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First submittedMay 26, 2014
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Average score63.6%
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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
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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
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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.
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Level 69
Apr 20, 2015
Yeah, I knew it was fa-something-gong, but didn't know "lun"
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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.
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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 82
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.
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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.

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Level 73
Jan 3, 2020
I thought it was foot binding honestly
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Level 37
Feb 9, 2020
Knew it, just couldn't spell it; kept trying falung gong, falun jung...
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Level 39
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
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Level 82
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.
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Level 33
Jul 11, 2014
Excellent quiz... really made me think.
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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.
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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.
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Level 83
Dec 5, 2015
Is there anyone referred to as a "founding father" in any other country that uses $100 bills?
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Level 68
Dec 4, 2016
NZ $100 features Lord Ernest Rutherford, "Father of the Atom". Not an F name though.
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Level 79
Aug 8, 2017
..unless his middle name was Ruther.
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Level 59
Dec 4, 2016
Got the Jewish diarist thanks to Benjamin!!
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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.

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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.
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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.
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Level 92
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.
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Level 64
Aug 24, 2023
I was thinking Hans Christian Oersted.
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Level 67
Jan 3, 2020
For "Spiritual and exercise movement brutally suppressed by China", please accept "Freedom of Speech".
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Level 67
Jan 3, 2020
Ha. Nice.
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Level 39
Nov 6, 2023
haha, so true bestie. nothing happened at kent state.
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Level 55
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!
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Level 78
Jul 31, 2020
I had never heard of flapper. You learn stuff on here.
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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!
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Level 92
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."
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Level 76
Apr 7, 2021
Just wanted to point out that typing "Franklin" gets you Anne Frank for free.
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Level 69
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.
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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.
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Level 71
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?

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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.

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Level 64
Sep 8, 2021
Please could you rephrase the question for 'flapper '? 'brash' is unpleasantly sexist
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Level 61
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...
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Level 60
Dec 2, 2021
'Scottish rite' seems unnecessarily obscure as a clue to freemasonry - except to the Scots presumably.
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Level 41
Feb 8, 2024
Please Remove Falun Gong. Not even excusing their persecution in China, because that is horrible. But they are a cult currently pushing right wing conspiracy theories in the United States. Really nothing to do with history.