Question: What was used as a insecticide in the 17th century?
Answer: nicotine sulfate

Question: What decade did herbicides become common?
Answer: 1960s

Question: Who can be credited with finding out DDT is useful as an insecticide?
Answer: Paul Müller

Question: What is the source used to exact nicotine sulfate?
Answer: tobacco leaves

Question: When were laws first created to regulate pesticides?
Answer: 1910

Question: What might someone knowledgable about the history of pesticides call ther period of the 1940s and 1950s?
Answer: pesticide era

Question: When did America establish the Environmental Protection Agency?
Answer: 1970

Question: Countries which are established use what amount of pesticides?
Answer: Seventy-five percent

Question: Trends about use of pesticides have been published from which country?
Answer: USA

Question: What type of region is somerset
Answer: Somerset is a rural county of rolling hills

Question: What are some areas of Somerset county
Answer: Blackdown Hills, Mendip Hills, Quantock Hills and Exmoor National Park, and large flat expanses of land including the Somerset Levels

Question: How far back was the county populated 
Answer: There is evidence of human occupation from Paleolithic times, and of subsequent settlement in the Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods

Question: What Kings rise did the county play part in 
Answer: a significant part in the consolidation of power and rise of King Alfred the Great, and later in the English Civil War and the Monmouth Rebellion

Question: What is the city of Bath famous for 
Answer: substantial Georgian architecture and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Question: What are the people of somerset mentioned in 
Answer: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle's entry for AD 845

Question: What archaic name was mentioned in 878 
Answer: The archaic name Somersetshire was mentioned in the Chronicle's entry for 878

Question: When did the county stop using Somersetshire 
Answer: it went out of fashion in the late 19th century

Question: What was superfluous 
Answer: As with other counties not ending in "shire," the suffix was superfluous, as there was no need to differentiate between the county and a town

Question: Who invaded Britain when the Romans Left 
Answer: Britain was invaded by Anglo-Saxon peoples

Question: It took how long for the Anglo Saxons to control  the Somerset area 
Answer: by the early eighth century King Ine of Wessex had pushed the boundaries of the West Saxon kingdom far enough west to include Somerset

Question: What was the Saxon Royal Palace used for 
Answer: was used several times in the 10th century to host the Witenagemot

Question: What prison does somerset county contain 
Answer: HM Prison Shepton Mallet, which was England's oldest prison still in use prior to its closure in 2013, having opened in 1610

Question: What rebellion took place in Somerset in 1685 
Answer: Monmouth Rebellion was played out in Somerset and neighbouring Dorset

Question: What ended Somersets cottage industry 
Answer: The Industrial Revolution in the Midlands and Northern England spelled the end for most of Somerset's cottage industries

Question: What flourished in Somerset after the Industrial revelotuion
Answer: Farming continued to flourish

Question: What Industry was important in the late 18th and 19th century of North Somerset
Answer: Coal mining was an important industry in north Somerset

Question: What did the west somerset mineral way transport 
Answer: iron ore in the late 19th century; this was taken by the West Somerset Mineral Railway to Watchet Harbour for shipment to the furnaces at Ebbw Vale

Question: How many Somerset soldiers were killed in WW1
Answer: Many Somerset soldiers died during the First World War, with the Somerset Light Infantry suffering nearly 5,000 casualties

Question: How many counties had no casualties in WW1 
Answer: only nine, described as the Thankful Villages, had none of their residents killed

Question: The county was base for what in WW2
Answer: for troops preparing for the D-Day landings

Question: What is the Tauton stop line 
Answer: The Taunton Stop Line was set up to repel a potential German invasion

Question: Why were decoy towns used in WW2
Answer: decoy towns were constructed in Somerset in World War II to protect Bristol and other towns, at night

Question: What did the decoy towns mimic 
Answer: mimic the geometry of "blacked out" streets, railway lines, and Bristol Temple Meads railway station, to encourage bombers away from these targets

Question: Who layed out  Beacon Batch 
Answer: Shepperton Studios, based on aerial photographs of the city's railway marshalling yards. The decoys were fitted with dim red lights

Question: What decoy city was hit 
Answer: The Chew Magna decoy town was hit by half-a-dozen bombs on 2 December 1940, and over a thousand incendiaries on 3 January 1941

Question: How long have the boundaries of somerset remained constant 
Answer: are largely unaltered from medieval times

Question: What river forms the border of Somerset 
Answer: The River Avon formed much of the border with Gloucestershire, except that the hundred of Bath Forum

Question: What did king Edward the 3 do 
Answer: Edward III proclaimed "that the town of Bristol with its suburbs and precincts shall henceforth be separate from the counties of Gloucester and Somerset

Question: When did Somerton take over from Ilchester as the county town 
Answer: in the late thirteenth century, but it declined in importance and the status of county town transferred to Taunton about 1366

Question: How many cities and towns in Somerset 
Answer: The county has two cities, Bath and Wells, and 30 towns

Question: The largest populations of the county 
Answer: in terms of population are Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Taunton, Yeovil and Bridgwater

Question: What was the strategic purpose to settle this area 
Answer: strategic importance in relation to geographical features, such as river crossings or valleys in ranges of hills

Question: Most Southernly town of somerset
Answer: Chard is the most southerly town in Somerset, and at an altitude of 121 m (397 ft) it is also the highest

Question: What area lies in the northeastern part of Somerset levels 
Answer: the Mendip Hills are moderately high limestone hills

Question: What area was Designated to have outstanding beauty 
Answer: Quantock Hills which was England's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty designated in 1956

Question: What is the name of the coal field 
Answer: The Somerset Coalfield is part of a larger coalfield which stretches into Gloucestershire

Question: What area support dairy farming 
Answer: on the clay substrate, are broad valleys which support dairy farming and drain into the Somerset Levels.

Question: What's the name of the cave system 
Answer: an extensive network of caves, including Wookey Hole

Question: Name 2 of the county gorges 
Answer: and gorges, including the Cheddar Gorge and Ebbor Gorge

Question: Name some of the county rivers 
Answer: the Axe, Brue, Cary, Parrett, Sheppey, Tone and Yeo

Question: What did King charles levy on river boats 
Answer: King Charles I, river tolls were levied on boats to pay for the maintenance of the bridge.

Question: What are the Somerset levels 
Answer: are a sparsely populated wetland area of central Somerset, between the Quantock and Mendip hills

Question: what do the Somerset levels consist of 
Answer: marine clay levels along the coast, and the inland (often peat based) moors

Question: what are the 2 sections of the somerset levels
Answer: the Polden Hills; land to the south is drained by the River Parrett while land to the north is drained by the River Axe and the River Brue

Question: What is the total area of the levels 
Answer: The total area of the Levels amounts to about 647.5 square kilometres (160,000 acres)

Question: who started drainage of the Somerset levels 
Answer: the Romans, and was restarted at various times: by the Anglo-Saxons