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The Letter F
Question | Answer |
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The ironic name of victim whom Montressor buries alive in Poe's "The Cast of Amontillado" | Fortunato |
French phrase for a woman who lures her lovers to disaster | Femme fatale |
Legendary ghost ship doomed to sail eternally | Flying Dutchman |
Jewish U.S. Supreme Court Justice who served from 1939-1962 | Felix Frankfurter |
Alaska's second largest city, nicknamed the "Golden Heart of the North." | Fairbanks |
Inventor of the *Clermont* the first commercially successfully steamboat | Robert Fulton |
Stalklike part of a stamen that supports the anther in flowers | Filament |
Inventor of the first practical mercury thermometer | Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit |
Author of *The Hamlet,* *The Mansion,* *The Reivers* | William Faulkner |
Scientist who demonstrated the rotation of the Earth with his pendulum | Jean Bernard Foucault |
Country with Paris as its capital | France |
The capital of Kentucky | Frankfort |
He revolutionalized both the automobile and assemblyline production | Henry Ford |
A small triangular plane surface of a diamond or othe gem | facet |
A young deer | Fawn |
A word used to describe something that is easily broken | Fragile |
In music, this term means loud | forte |
A living organism that may look like a plant but lacks chlorophyll | fungus or fungi |
This distance is equal to one-eighth of a mile | furlong |
This historical unit of measurement was equal to the distance of one's outstretched arms. | fathom |