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Feb 2025
Saturday News Quiz Answers – February 21
Here are the answers to this week's Saturday News Quiz. How well did you do?
1. As the Ministry of Defence put service provision at the Army Foundation College Harrogate out to tender, the annual cost of running the facility was revealed in Parliament. How much was it?
Answer: b) £85.5 million. You can read more about the tender and the recent history of the college here.
2. Plans to install two wildlife sculptures at a housing development in Green Hammerton have been scrapped. What were the two statues to have depicted?
Answer: c) a badger doing yoga and a hedgehog on a scooter. You can see what the sculptures look like here.
3. Harrogate's 15 largest hotels voted against setting up an Accommodation Business Improvement District for the town and introducing a £2-a-night 'tourist tax'. Supporters hoped to be able to spend the money raised on marketing Harrogate to boost numbers of overnight stays. How much did they estimate the levy would have raised annually?
Answer: c) £679,000. You can read hoteliers' reactions to the outcome of the vote here.
4. Rudy’s Pizza, a nationwide Neapolitan pizza chain, has announced a cunning plan to get people through the doors when it opens in Harrogate in April. What's the offer?
Answer: a) it's giving away 3,000 pizzas. You can find out more about the opening, and the offer, here.
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