Hello, Here is the Letter "F" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Franz Beckenbauer

Franz Anton Beckenbauer (born 1945) was a German soccer player and coach. He was nicknamed "Der Kaiser" ("The Emperor") for his elegant style and his leadership over the team. He is considered one of the greatest players in the soccer history.

Franz Beckenbauer, along with Brazilian Mario J. Lobo Zagallo and Frenchman Didier Deschamps are the only three soccer players to win the World Cup both as players and coaches for national teams. Beckenbauer earned the title as a player in 1974 and as coach of the German Team in 1990.

Answer: Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) was a Scottish biologist, doctor, microbiologist and pharmacologist who dedicated himself to the study of potential non-toxic bactericidal substances for humans. During World War I, as a military doctor on the battle front, he was impressed by the large number of deaths occurring as a result of sepsis from infected wounds. He also noticed that the antiseptics existing at the time were good for treating surface injuries but were ineffective in cases of the deep wounds.

His work on wound infections and lysozyme, an antibacterial found in tears and saliva, had already given him fame in the history of bacteriology. His accidental discovery of penicillin, in 1928, paved the way for the creation of antibiotics. In 1945, he received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine along with the pathologist Howard Walter Florey and the biochemist Ernst Boris Chain, both of whom isolated and purified penicillin.

Answer: Colin Firth

Colin Andrew Firth (born 1960) is an English actor and producer. At the age of 14, after a few performances, he decided that he would be a professional actor. His first professional role was in the West End production of "Another Country". He played a variety of characters in film and TV. He was a huge success as Mr. Darcy in the 1995 television version of "Pride and Prejudice".

In 2011, Colin Firth won the Oscar for Best Actor in the film "The King's Speech", acting as Prince Albert, the Duke of York, who later became King George VI. The film has as its theme the treatment undertaken by the sovereign to solve his problem with speech when he became monarch of the United Kingdom in late 1936.

Answer: Sally Field

"Places in the Heart", 1984, is an American family drama, written and directed by Robert Benton and starred by Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris and others. The film received seven nominations at for the 57th Academy Awards and won two: Best Actress, for Sally Field, and Best Original Screenplay.

Sally Margaret Field was born in the United States in 1946, and started her actress career in 1965, on the television comedy "Gidget". Her movie debut took place in 1967 in "The Way West" opposite to Kirk Douglas. Her career took off in the 1970s starring among others in the films "Stay Hungry" and "Smokey and the Bandit". In the following years Sally Field won the Academy Award twice for "Norma Rae" (1976) and "Places in the Heart" (1984). In addition to her acting career, she has worked as a film and miniseries director.

Answer: Carl Fabergé

Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920) was one of the sons of the founder of the famous jewelry House of Fabergé. When Carl was 14 years old, he went to study at the Dresden Arts and Crafts School; from 1864 to 1872 he traveled to several European countries in order to learn new fabrication techniques and see objects of interest in European galleries and museums.

He returned to Saint Petersburg in 1872 to work with the work-master Hiskias Pendin, his mentor and tutor. In 1882, with the death of Hiskias, Carl Fabergé took over the responsibility for running the family company. Carl and his brother Agathon, went on to supply jewels and serve demands from Russia's Imperial Court. The first of many "Fabergé eggs", the "Hen Egg", was a gift from the Tsar Alexander III, to his wife Maria Fyodorovna on the Orthodox Easter in 1885. As the tsarina appreciated the gift, the tsar commissioned the company to make one Easter egg every year. After the death of tsar Alexander, his son Nicholas II followed his father's tradition and began to order two eggs a year, one for his mother and one for his wife. It is possible that the House of Fabergé created 69 eggs, of which 57 have survived until today.

Answer: Frankfort

Frankfort is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the seat of Franklin County. Frankfort, founded in 1786, is located along the Kentucky River in the Bluegrass region of Central Kentucky. The city probably got its name from an event that occurred in 1780s when a group of early European-American pioneers from Bryan Station, who were mining salt at a ford, were attacked by Native Americans. In this fight, pioneer Stephen Frank was killed, thus settlers called the place "Frank's Ford", which later elided to Frankfort.

When Kentucky became a state in 1792, several locations competed to be the capital and Frankfort was chosen. In 2020, the largest city in Kentucky was Louisville.

Answer: Fahrenheit 451

Ray Douglas Bradbury (1920-2012) was an American author and screenwriter. In 1934 his family moved to Los Angeles, in a location close to theaters and movie studios so the teenager was always in contact with the artistic environment. From an early age Bradbury, who was an avid reader, showed his talent and at age fourteen received his first payment as a writer.

Bradbury worked in several genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction. He was one of the most celebrated authors in the 20th century. Bradbury was best known for his stories collections "The Martian Chronicles" and "The Illustrated Man" and for his novel "Fahrenheit 451" published in 1953. The book received several awards and several adaptations were made to cinema, television, radio and computer gaming. Since its publication, "Fahrenheit 451" has occasionally been banned, censored or redacted.

Answer: Alaska

Mount Foraker, or Sultana as it is known by the Dena'ina, is located in the central Alaska Range in the Denali National Park. Mount Foraker has a north summit at 5,304 meters and south summit at 5,124 meters high. After Mount McKinley (Denali), Mount Foraker is the second highest peak in the Alaska Range and the third highest peak in the United States.

Sultana was renamed in 1899 in honor of Joseph B. Foraker, then a US Senator from Ohio. Its north peak was first climbed on August 6, 1934 and its higher south peak was climbed four days later by Charles Houston, T. Graham Brown, and Chychele Waterston, via its west ridge.

Answer: Fukushima

Fukushima is a prefecture of Japan, located in the Tōhoku region, on the island of Hanshu. The Fukushima prefecture covers many cities and is known for hosting excellent festivals and for its cherry blossom and autumn leaf season.

On 11 March, the "2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku" took place. The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves. The tsunami caused the nuclear accident in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Complex. The earthquake, the tsunami, the nuclear accident, the snowfall which immediately followed the tsunami, and the earthquake aftershocks claimed about 20,000 lives, caused the displacement of thousands of people, wiping entire towns off the map, contaminated an extensive region and even today there are areas seemingly beyond recovery.

Answer: Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963) was an American poet, who received numerous awards during his lifetime being the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. His best known works are: "Fire and Ice", "Mending Wall", "Nothing Gold can Stay" and "The Road Not Taken", which is often read at graduation ceremonies.

John Kennedy invited Robert Frost to read at his presidential inauguration on January 20, 1961. Frost accepted the invitation and composed the poem "Dedication" for the occasion. The inauguration took place outdoors and on a sunny day. When Frost took the stage, he started reading the poem "Dedication" but had to stop it because the glare from the snow was too strong preventing him from reading. Then he recited by heart the poem "The Gift Outright". Frost was the first poet to speak in a presidential inauguration.

Now that you have finished playing this quiz, take the opportunity to relax by reading "The Gift Outright" poem (available at https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/life-of-john-f-kennedy/fast-facts-john-f-kennedy/the-gift-outright-by-robert-frost).