On June 12, we remember Anne Frank, born in 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The Jewish diarist's story continues to inspire millions. Meanwhile, in 1982, during the Falklands conflict, the British submarine HMS Conqueror sank the Argentinian battleship General Belgrano. On the back of a Bank of England £50 note, Matthew Boulton is featured alongside his business partner James Watt. King George V was married to Mary of Teck. Songs with 'Four' in the title include: (a) Gene Pitney's 'Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa' (1963), (b) Faron Young's 'Four in the Morning' (1972), (c) Kim Wilde's 'Four Letter Word' (1988), (d) Mark Owen's 'Four Minute Warning' (2003), and (e) Bob Dylan's 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue' (1965). The main alcoholic ingredient in a Tom Collins cocktail is gin. Sailing directly north from Malta, you would reach Italy first. Tom Hanks received his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the 1988 film 'Big'. In 2000, Mark Williams became the first left-handed World Snooker champion. Chile is dissected into two almost equal halves by the Tropic of Capricorn. The name of the girl in The Hunchback of Notre Dame is Esmeralda.
Answers for June 11
1. The rock band Genesis was originally formed by pupils from Charterhouse school. 2. Robert Bloch wrote the novel on which the 1960 Hitchcock movie 'Psycho' was based. 3. On a British Ordnance Survey map, 'FB' indicates a Foot Bridge. 4. In Greek mythology, the mother of Apollo was Leto (his father was Zeus). 5. In the BBC sit-com 'Steptoe and Son', Albert Steptoe's middle names were Edward Ladysmith. 6. The five actors known as 'The Rat Pack' in the 1960s were Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jnr., Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford. 7. The largest city on the Atlantic islands of the Azores is Ponta Delgada. 8. The fictional character known as 'The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' is Sweeney Todd. 9. The four types of human teeth are Incisors, Canines, Pre-Molars (Bicuspids), and Molars. 10. In the 2009 animated TV film of 'The Gruffalo', the voice of the Gruffalo was provided by Robbie Coltrane.
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