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The Letter F
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |