Tocino
2. Francis of Assisi (1171-1226) was born into a wealthy family. He was a soldier and prisoner of war before he experienced a conversion in his early 20s. He sold his property, gave the proceeds to the church, and began a life of poverty and devoutness. He soon attracted followers, whom he sent to preach throughout Europe, and in 1209 Innocent III gave approval for the Franciscan order. The Rule of St Francis stressed the need to imitate the life of Jesus. In many ways a mystic, Francis viewed all nature as a mirror of God, calling all creatures his brothers and sisters. In 1212 he allowed formation of an order for women, called the Poor Clares. In 1219 he went to Egypt, preached to the sultan, and visited the holy places of Jerusalem. In 1224, after a vision, he became the first person to receive the stigmata. His influence helped restore popular faith in a church much corrupted by wealth and political aspirations. Source
10. Ian Fleming (1909- 1964) was the creator of the fictional superspy James Bond. After publishing the first Bond adventure, Casino Royale, in 1953, Fleming wrote one Bond book each year until his death. Fleming also wrote a series of travel books and the popular children’s story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Source
3. Guy Fawkes?
I’m off. 🙂
Jaime! Wrong Number – sorry!
Tocino
3. Guido (Guy) Fawkes (1570-1606), who also used the pseudonym John Johnson, was a member of a group of Catholic conspirators who endeavoured to blow up King James I and all the members of both branches of the Parliament of England while they were assembled in the House of Lords for the formal opening of the 1605 session of Parliament. The plot was uncovered and the barrels of gunpowder defused before any damage was done. Fawkes was a convert to Catholicism, which occurred at about the age of 16 if his admission of recusancy at his preliminary interrogation is to be believed. Source
8. Florence Nightingale?
9. Franz Josef of Austria?
FEEG
8. Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was a legend in her lifetime but the Crimean War years which made her famous were just two out of a life of ninety years. In March 1854, Britain, France and Turkey declared war on Russia. The allies defeated the Russians at the battle of the Alma in September but reports in The Times criticised the British medical facilities for the wounded. In response, Sidney Herbert, Minister at War, who knew Florence Nightingale socially and through her work at Harley Street, appointed her to oversee the introduction of female nurses into the military hospitals in Turkey. On 4 November 1854, Florence arrived at the Barrack Hospital in Scutari, a suburb on the Asian side of Constantinople, with the party of 38 nurses. Initially the doctors did not want the nurses there and did not ask for their help, but within ten days fresh casualties arrived from the battle of Inkermann and the nurses were fully stretched. The introduction of female nurses to the military hospitals was an outstanding success, and to show the nation’s gratitude for Florence Nightingale’s hard work a public subscription was organised in November 1855. The money collected was to enable Florence Nightingale to continue her reform of nursing in the civil hospitals of Britain. Source
9. Nearly – not quite!
1 Fibonacci?! He had a sequence. Oh wow. I got one. 😉
9. arch duke ferdinand
Jan
Why so surprised!
1. Leonardo of Pisa , also known as Leonardo Pisano, Leonardo Bonacci, Leonardo Fibonacci, or, most commonly, simply Fibonacci (1170-1250), was an Italian mathematician, considered by some “the most talented mathematician of the Middle Ages”. Fibonacci is best known to the modern world for disseminating the Arabic numeral system in Europe, primarily through the publication in the early 13th century of his Book of Calculation, the Liber Abaci. A modern number sequence named after him known as the Fibonacci numbers, which he did not discover but was used as an example in the Liber Abaci. Source
CB
9. Franz Ferdinand (1863 –1914) was an Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia, and from 1889 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne.[1] His assassination in Sarajevo precipitated Austria-Hungary’s declaration of war against Serbia. This caused Germany and Austria-Hungary, and countries allied with Serbia (the Triple Entente Powers) to declare war on each other, starting World War I. Source
I’m finding this difficult, Boadicea, but I will keep at it!
I thought this one was quite easy – but I suppose I would, I’ve got the answers! Oddly enough, it was quite difficult to find 10 ‘F’ people.
Because I’m hopeless at these, Boadicea! 😀 But I do appreciate you doing them so I can see how bright everyone else it 😀
A 13th century book of calculations? Weren’t we still using abacuses over here then?
We were Jan, and chequered boards in the Exchequer.
Have you ever watched someone using an abacus? I have – amazing how fast their fingers fly!
I’m pleased you enjoy them. 🙂
Nope. I was quite slow with my abacus, I think. 🙂 Thanks again.
6. faraday, that or Richard Feymann which seems unlikely
CB
6. Michael Faraday (1791 –1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of the time) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. Although Faraday received little formal education and knew little of higher mathematics, such as calculus, he was one of the most influential scientists in history. Some historians of science refer to him as the best experimentalist in the history of science. Faraday was highly religious; he was a member of the Sandemanian Church, a Christian sect founded in 1730 that demanded total faith and commitment. Biographers have noted that “a strong sense of the unity of God and nature pervaded Faraday’s life and work.” Source
4. frankie goes to hollywood.
Bit further back than that CB!
yeah, thought i was going out on a limb with that one.
Janus
5. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736), German physicist and instrument maker. He spent most of his life in the Netherlands, where he devoted himself to the study of physics and the manufacture of precision meteorological instruments. He is best known for inventing a successful alcohol thermometer (1709) and mercury thermometer (1714) and for developing the Fahrenheit temperature scale, setting zero at the freezing point of an equal mixture of ice and salt. He discovered that water can remain liquid below its freezing point and that the boiling point of liquids varies with atmospheric pressure. Source
7. Fyodor Dostoievsky?
No!! I thought this was really easy – obviously not!
4. Franz Liszt?
First name right! Bit earlier…
4. Schubert
Well done Christina!
4. Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was born into a musical family, and received formal musical training through much of his childhood. While Schubert had a close circle of friends and associates who admired his , wide appreciation of his music during his lifetime was limited at best. He was never able to secure adequate permanent employment, and for most of his career he relied on the support of friends and family. He made some money from published works, and occasionally gave private musical instruction.
Interest in Schubert’s work increased dramatically in the decades following his early death at the age of thirty-one. Composers such as Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn discovered, collected, and championed his works in the 19th century, as did musicologist Sir George Grove. Franz Schubert is now widely considered to be one of the greatest of all composers. Source
Oh Boadicea, did you really delete the answers from old Mad of Orleans? The pathetic little fellow is complaining about that and “perfidious Albion” in general on MyT. “Please, miss, it’s not fair …”
Sheona: One can tolerate being insulted only so long – he’s been gone from this site for several days. So no, I didn’t delete any answers – they didn’t get here.
Extra clue for number 7 “You’ll get full marks for this one … “
7. Frederik Engels?
Entschuldigung! Friedrich! If it is indeed the man, he grew a bigger nose later. 😦
Janus
Hurray!
7. Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) was the son of a textile manufacturer, and after managing a factory in Manchester, England, he wrote his first major work, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844. In 1844 he met Marx in Paris, beginning a lifelong collaboration . He and Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto (1848) and other works that predicted the inevitable triumph of the working class. When the Revolutions of 1848 failed, Engels settled in England. With Marx he helped found (1864) the International Workingmen’s Association. Engels’s financial aid enabled Marx to devote himself to writing Das Kapital (1867-94) and after Marx’s death Engels edited vol. 2 and 3 from Marx’s drafts and notes. Source
if Florence Nightingale is F, then why isn’t Michael Faraday M?
Ah but you gave the extra clue, earlier than Liszt!
I rather like Schubert, used to go to the Dallas Gardens where his music was popular on Sunday afternoons in the Conservatory, very nice looking out over the ponds, thank God it was air conditioned, can you imagine having to air condition a conservatory, well you probably can in Australia!
God all that dreadful heat!
CB It’s always been that one of the names begins with the letter of choice. I had a really hard job trying to find 10 people, who were relatively famous, with one name beginning with ‘F’.
Christina I was beginning to wonder whether I’d made this one too hard! I try to find pictures that people won’t recognise immediately. It’s quite interesting that the most famous images of these people are nearly always of them in later life. It’s not because there aren’t pictures of them as young men and women, it’s simply that biographers don’t seem to use them.
I most certainly can imagine air-conditioning a conservatory – they’d get no takers for a Concert here if it wasn’t!
CO
I used to wonder about the people who got married in august in the Dallas Arboretum, right next to the lake for added humidity. It probably seemed like a good idea when they booked the place in the previous autumn.
Boad.
I see, i hadn’t paid close attention to the details before. will try harder next time. Does that mean middle initials are fair game too?
Oh I didn’t realise that Boadicea. Thought it was the surname. Will know for next time. Bound to make a huge difference…. NOT!!! 🙂
Boa,
I love your historical quizzes. I really appreciate the amount of work that you put into producing them. It must get increasingly harder with every initial. Don’t give up, I have to wonder what initial will prove to be your biggest challenge? 🙂
CB Yes indeed! All names are fair game!
Jan It will make a huge difference!
Tocino Thanks! I can tell you now that the hardest letters are ‘Q’ and ‘Z’ – relatively ‘modern’ letters, I don’t want to ‘cheat’ by having ‘Queen …’, but I’m sorely tempted!
Boadicea's Chariot 
3. St. Francis of Assisi
2. Francis of Assisi?
10. Ian Fleming?
Tocino
2. Francis of Assisi (1171-1226) was born into a wealthy family. He was a soldier and prisoner of war before he experienced a conversion in his early 20s. He sold his property, gave the proceeds to the church, and began a life of poverty and devoutness. He soon attracted followers, whom he sent to preach throughout Europe, and in 1209 Innocent III gave approval for the Franciscan order. The Rule of St Francis stressed the need to imitate the life of Jesus. In many ways a mystic, Francis viewed all nature as a mirror of God, calling all creatures his brothers and sisters. In 1212 he allowed formation of an order for women, called the Poor Clares. In 1219 he went to Egypt, preached to the sultan, and visited the holy places of Jerusalem. In 1224, after a vision, he became the first person to receive the stigmata. His influence helped restore popular faith in a church much corrupted by wealth and political aspirations.
Source
10. Ian Fleming (1909- 1964) was the creator of the fictional superspy James Bond. After publishing the first Bond adventure, Casino Royale, in 1953, Fleming wrote one Bond book each year until his death. Fleming also wrote a series of travel books and the popular children’s story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Source
3. Guy Fawkes?
I’m off. 🙂
Jaime! Wrong Number – sorry!
Tocino
3. Guido (Guy) Fawkes (1570-1606), who also used the pseudonym John Johnson, was a member of a group of Catholic conspirators who endeavoured to blow up King James I and all the members of both branches of the Parliament of England while they were assembled in the House of Lords for the formal opening of the 1605 session of Parliament. The plot was uncovered and the barrels of gunpowder defused before any damage was done. Fawkes was a convert to Catholicism, which occurred at about the age of 16 if his admission of recusancy at his preliminary interrogation is to be believed.
Source
8. Florence Nightingale?
9. Franz Josef of Austria?
FEEG
8. Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was a legend in her lifetime but the Crimean War years which made her famous were just two out of a life of ninety years. In March 1854, Britain, France and Turkey declared war on Russia. The allies defeated the Russians at the battle of the Alma in September but reports in The Times criticised the British medical facilities for the wounded. In response, Sidney Herbert, Minister at War, who knew Florence Nightingale socially and through her work at Harley Street, appointed her to oversee the introduction of female nurses into the military hospitals in Turkey. On 4 November 1854, Florence arrived at the Barrack Hospital in Scutari, a suburb on the Asian side of Constantinople, with the party of 38 nurses. Initially the doctors did not want the nurses there and did not ask for their help, but within ten days fresh casualties arrived from the battle of Inkermann and the nurses were fully stretched. The introduction of female nurses to the military hospitals was an outstanding success, and to show the nation’s gratitude for Florence Nightingale’s hard work a public subscription was organised in November 1855. The money collected was to enable Florence Nightingale to continue her reform of nursing in the civil hospitals of Britain.
Source
9. Nearly – not quite!
1 Fibonacci?! He had a sequence. Oh wow. I got one. 😉
9. arch duke ferdinand
Jan
Why so surprised!
1. Leonardo of Pisa , also known as Leonardo Pisano, Leonardo Bonacci, Leonardo Fibonacci, or, most commonly, simply Fibonacci (1170-1250), was an Italian mathematician, considered by some “the most talented mathematician of the Middle Ages”. Fibonacci is best known to the modern world for disseminating the Arabic numeral system in Europe, primarily through the publication in the early 13th century of his Book of Calculation, the Liber Abaci. A modern number sequence named after him known as the Fibonacci numbers, which he did not discover but was used as an example in the Liber Abaci.
Source
CB
9. Franz Ferdinand (1863 –1914) was an Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia, and from 1889 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne.[1] His assassination in Sarajevo precipitated Austria-Hungary’s declaration of war against Serbia. This caused Germany and Austria-Hungary, and countries allied with Serbia (the Triple Entente Powers) to declare war on each other, starting World War I.
Source
I’m finding this difficult, Boadicea, but I will keep at it!
I thought this one was quite easy – but I suppose I would, I’ve got the answers! Oddly enough, it was quite difficult to find 10 ‘F’ people.
Because I’m hopeless at these, Boadicea! 😀 But I do appreciate you doing them so I can see how bright everyone else it 😀
A 13th century book of calculations? Weren’t we still using abacuses over here then?
We were Jan, and chequered boards in the Exchequer.
Have you ever watched someone using an abacus? I have – amazing how fast their fingers fly!
I’m pleased you enjoy them. 🙂
Nope. I was quite slow with my abacus, I think. 🙂 Thanks again.
6. faraday, that or Richard Feymann which seems unlikely
CB
6. Michael Faraday (1791 –1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of the time) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. Although Faraday received little formal education and knew little of higher mathematics, such as calculus, he was one of the most influential scientists in history. Some historians of science refer to him as the best experimentalist in the history of science. Faraday was highly religious; he was a member of the Sandemanian Church, a Christian sect founded in 1730 that demanded total faith and commitment. Biographers have noted that “a strong sense of the unity of God and nature pervaded Faraday’s life and work.”
Source
4. frankie goes to hollywood.
Bit further back than that CB!
yeah, thought i was going out on a limb with that one.
Oooops. I typed in the wrong number.
Yes – sorry Jaime!
4. César Franck?
Janus
Hint! either name!
7. Gustave Flaubert?
5. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit?
Janus
5. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736), German physicist and instrument maker. He spent most of his life in the Netherlands, where he devoted himself to the study of physics and the manufacture of precision meteorological instruments. He is best known for inventing a successful alcohol thermometer (1709) and mercury thermometer (1714) and for developing the Fahrenheit temperature scale, setting zero at the freezing point of an equal mixture of ice and salt. He discovered that water can remain liquid below its freezing point and that the boiling point of liquids varies with atmospheric pressure.
Source
7. Fyodor Dostoievsky?
No!! I thought this was really easy – obviously not!
4. Franz Liszt?
First name right! Bit earlier…
4. Schubert
Well done Christina!
4. Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was born into a musical family, and received formal musical training through much of his childhood. While Schubert had a close circle of friends and associates who admired his , wide appreciation of his music during his lifetime was limited at best. He was never able to secure adequate permanent employment, and for most of his career he relied on the support of friends and family. He made some money from published works, and occasionally gave private musical instruction.
Interest in Schubert’s work increased dramatically in the decades following his early death at the age of thirty-one. Composers such as Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn discovered, collected, and championed his works in the 19th century, as did musicologist Sir George Grove. Franz Schubert is now widely considered to be one of the greatest of all composers.
Source
Oh Boadicea, did you really delete the answers from old Mad of Orleans? The pathetic little fellow is complaining about that and “perfidious Albion” in general on MyT. “Please, miss, it’s not fair …”
Sheona: One can tolerate being insulted only so long – he’s been gone from this site for several days. So no, I didn’t delete any answers – they didn’t get here.
7. Frederik Engels?
Entschuldigung! Friedrich! If it is indeed the man, he grew a bigger nose later. 😦
Janus
Hurray!
7. Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) was the son of a textile manufacturer, and after managing a factory in Manchester, England, he wrote his first major work, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844. In 1844 he met Marx in Paris, beginning a lifelong collaboration . He and Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto (1848) and other works that predicted the inevitable triumph of the working class. When the Revolutions of 1848 failed, Engels settled in England. With Marx he helped found (1864) the International Workingmen’s Association. Engels’s financial aid enabled Marx to devote himself to writing Das Kapital (1867-94) and after Marx’s death Engels edited vol. 2 and 3 from Marx’s drafts and notes.
Source
if Florence Nightingale is F, then why isn’t Michael Faraday M?
Ah but you gave the extra clue, earlier than Liszt!
I rather like Schubert, used to go to the Dallas Gardens where his music was popular on Sunday afternoons in the Conservatory, very nice looking out over the ponds, thank God it was air conditioned, can you imagine having to air condition a conservatory, well you probably can in Australia!
God all that dreadful heat!
CB It’s always been that one of the names begins with the letter of choice. I had a really hard job trying to find 10 people, who were relatively famous, with one name beginning with ‘F’.
Christina I was beginning to wonder whether I’d made this one too hard! I try to find pictures that people won’t recognise immediately. It’s quite interesting that the most famous images of these people are nearly always of them in later life. It’s not because there aren’t pictures of them as young men and women, it’s simply that biographers don’t seem to use them.
I most certainly can imagine air-conditioning a conservatory – they’d get no takers for a Concert here if it wasn’t!
CO
I used to wonder about the people who got married in august in the Dallas Arboretum, right next to the lake for added humidity. It probably seemed like a good idea when they booked the place in the previous autumn.
Boad.
I see, i hadn’t paid close attention to the details before. will try harder next time. Does that mean middle initials are fair game too?
Oh I didn’t realise that Boadicea. Thought it was the surname. Will know for next time. Bound to make a huge difference…. NOT!!! 🙂
Boa,
I love your historical quizzes. I really appreciate the amount of work that you put into producing them. It must get increasingly harder with every initial. Don’t give up, I have to wonder what initial will prove to be your biggest challenge? 🙂
CB Yes indeed! All names are fair game!
Jan It will make a huge difference!
Tocino Thanks! I can tell you now that the hardest letters are ‘Q’ and ‘Z’ – relatively ‘modern’ letters, I don’t want to ‘cheat’ by having ‘Queen …’, but I’m sorely tempted!