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Oct 2024

Last Updated: 10/10/2025
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Lifestyle

Saturday News Quiz Answers – October 11

by The Stray Ferret

| 11 Oct, 2024
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Here are the answers to this week's Saturday News Quiz. How well did you do?

1. Harrogate golfer John Parry won £200,000 at Dunhill Links last weekend, but which movie star did he pair up with for the preceding pro-am event?

Answer: b) Michael Douglas, although the other two also played at the event. You can find out how Parry and the Hollywood star fared here.

2. This week, businesses in Knaresborough called on North Yorkshire Council to replace traffic lights at the junction of York Place and Gracious Street with a mini roundabout to ease congestion. They submitted a petition to the council, but how many businesses signed it?

Answer: b) 34. You can read about why a mini roundabout has been suggested for Knaresborough High Street here.

3. Fencing labelled ‘temporary’ was erected in front of the pavilion at Harrogate’s Crescent Gardens two years ago. It remains in place today, but why was it put there in the first place?

Answer: b) To block a group of rough sleepers. You can find out why North Yorkshire Council has no plans to remove the fencing here.

4. Harrogate Spring Water published its 2024 annual accounts this week. How much was its turnover?

Answer: c) 37 million. You can comb through the water company's figures for the last financial year here.