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Nov 2024

Here are the answers to this week's Saturday News Quiz. How well did you do?
1. Lightwater Valley Family Adventure Park is under offer after being listed for sale for £3 million. Until 2023 it was home to Europe's longest rollercoaster called the Ultimate. How long was it?
Answer: c) 7,442 ft – that's 1.4 miles. You can more about it here.
2. Yorkshire Water has advised people in one small area of Nidderdale not to drink the tapwater due to contamination, and chief executive Nicola Shaw has ordered staff to send a pallet of bottled water. More than 1,000 homes have been told to boil their tapwater before drinking it, but how many addresses are affected by the Do Not Drink advice?
Answer: b) 34, including RAF Menwith Hill. You can find out more about Yorkshire Water's work to identify the source of the pollution here.
3. Volunteers were appalled when vandals damaged Ripon's remembrance displays of knitted poppies. The displays have become a much-loved feature of the city's annual remembrance events, but how many knitted poppies are there?
Answer: b) 75,000, all hand-knitted by volunteers. You can read about the vandalism here.
4. Volunteers for a project coordinated by the Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust have surveyed Oak Beck and Bilton Beck in Harrogate. Of the 64 outfalls (drainage pipes) identified, how many have been classed as polluting?
Answer: a) 29. You can read more about the project, which has already resulted in less pollution, here.
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