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Bridgwater was developed during the Industrial Revolution as the area's leading port. The River Parrett was navigable by large ships as far as Bridgwater. Cargoes were then loaded onto smaller boats at Langport Quay, next to the Bridgwater Bridge, to be carried further up river to Langport; or they could turn off at Burrowbridge and then travel via the River Tone to Taunton. The Parrett is now only navigable as far as Dunball Wharf. Bridgwater, in the 19th and 20th centuries, was a centre for the manufacture of bricks and clay roof tiles, and later cellophane, but those industries have now stopped. With its good links to the motorway system, Bridgwater has developed as a distribution hub for companies such as Argos, Toolstation, Morrisons and Gerber Juice. AgustaWestland manufactures helicopters in Yeovil, and Normalair Garratt, builder of aircraft oxygen systems, is also based in the town. Many towns have encouraged small-scale light industries, such as Crewkerne's Ariel Motor Company, one of the UK's smallest car manufacturers.

Question: What is the leading port of somerset 
Answer: Bridgwater was developed during the Industrial Revolution as the area's leading port

Question: what was manufacture in Bridgeport in the 19th and 20th century
Answer: was a centre for the manufacture of bricks and clay roof tiles, and later cellophane, but those industries have now stopped

Question: The good motor system presently allows for 
Answer: Bridgwater has developed as a distribution hub for companies such as Argos, Toolstation, Morrisons and Gerber Juice

Question: where are aircraft manufactured 
Answer: AgustaWestland manufactures helicopters in Yeovil, and Normalair Garratt, builder of aircraft oxygen systems

Question: What do many towns encourage 
Answer: Many towns have encouraged small-scale light industries, such as Crewkerne's Ariel Motor Company, one of the UK's smallest car manufacturers
Somerset is an important supplier of defence equipment and technology. A Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF Bridgwater was built at the start of the Second World War, between the villages of Puriton and Woolavington, to manufacture explosives. The site was decommissioned and closed in July 2008. Templecombe has Thales Underwater Systems, and Taunton presently has the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office and Avimo, which became part of Thales Optics. It has been announced twice, in 2006 and 2007, that manufacturing is to end at Thales Optics' Taunton site, but the trade unions and Taunton Deane District Council are working to reverse or mitigate these decisions. Other high-technology companies include the optics company Gooch and Housego, at Ilminster. There are Ministry of Defence offices in Bath, and Norton Fitzwarren is the home of 40 Commando Royal Marines. The Royal Naval Air Station in Yeovilton, is one of Britain's two active Fleet Air Arm bases and is home to the Royal Navy's Lynx helicopters and the Royal Marines Commando Westland Sea Kings. Around 1,675 service and 2,000 civilian personnel are stationed at Yeovilton and key activities include training of aircrew and engineers and the Royal Navy's Fighter Controllers and surface-based aircraft controllers.

Question: What type of factory was built in Somerset 
Answer: A Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF Bridgwater was built at the start of the Second World War, between the villages of Puriton and Woolavington

Question: What other high tech industry is in Somerset 
Answer: Other high-technology companies include the optics company Gooch and Housego, at Ilminster

Question: What is yeovilton home to 
Answer: The Royal Naval Air Station in Yeovilton, is one of Britain's two active Fleet Air Arm bases and is home to the Royal Navy's Lynx helicopters

Question: What area is home to royal marines 
Answer: Norton Fitzwarren is the home of 40 Commando Royal Marines

Question: What is Somerset an important supplier of 
Answer: defence equipment and technology.
Agriculture and food and drink production continue to be major industries in the county, employing over 15,000 people. Apple orchards were once plentiful, and Somerset is still a major producer of cider. The towns of Taunton and Shepton Mallet are involved with the production of cider, especially Blackthorn Cider, which is sold nationwide, and there are specialist producers such as Burrow Hill Cider Farm and Thatchers Cider. Gerber Products Company in Bridgwater is the largest producer of fruit juices in Europe, producing brands such as "Sunny Delight" and "Ocean Spray." Development of the milk-based industries, such as Ilchester Cheese Company and Yeo Valley Organic, have resulted in the production of ranges of desserts, yoghurts and cheeses, including Cheddar cheese—some of which has the West Country Farmhouse Cheddar Protected Designation of Origin (PDO).

Question: What area employs 15000 people in the couinty
Answer: Agriculture and food and drink production continue to be major industries in the county, employing over 15,000 people

Question: What type of orchids used to be pleantiful 
Answer: Apple orchards were once plentiful, and Somerset is still a major producer of cider

Question: What area is important to the fruit juice industry 
Answer: Gerber Products Company in Bridgwater is the largest producer of fruit juices in Europe, producing brands such as "Sunny Delight" and "Ocean Spray

Question: What area is PDO 
Answer: Cheddar cheese—some of which has the West Country Farmhouse Cheddar Protected Designation of Origin (PDO).
Traditional willow growing and weaving (such as basket weaving) is not as extensive as it used to be but is still carried out on the Somerset Levels and is commemorated at the Willows and Wetlands Visitor Centre. Fragments of willow basket were found near the Glastonbury Lake Village, and it was also used in the construction of several Iron Age causeways. The willow was harvested using a traditional method of pollarding, where a tree would be cut back to the main stem. During the 1930s more than 3,600 hectares (8,900 acres) of willow were being grown commercially on the Levels. Largely due to the displacement of baskets with plastic bags and cardboard boxes, the industry has severely declined since the 1950s. By the end of the 20th century only about 140 hectares (350 acres) were grown commercially, near the villages of Burrowbridge, Westonzoyland and North Curry. The Somerset Levels is now the only area in the UK where basket willow is grown commercially.

Question: Where is willow growing still practiced 
Answer: Traditional willow growing and weaving (such as basket weaving) is not as extensive as it used to be but is still carried out on the Somerset Levels

Question: What is pollarding 
Answer: The willow was harvested using a traditional method of pollarding, where a tree would be cut back to the main stem

Question: What did plastic bags result in 
Answer: Largely due to the displacement of baskets with plastic bags and cardboard boxes, the industry has severely declined since the 1950s

Question: The somerset level is the only area left  to commercially grow what 
Answer: The Somerset Levels is now the only area in the UK where basket willow is grown commercially.
Towns such as Castle Cary and Frome grew around the medieval weaving industry. Street developed as a centre for the production of woollen slippers and, later, boots and shoes, with C. & J. Clark establishing its headquarters in the town. C&J Clark's shoes are no longer manufactured there as the work was transferred to lower-wage areas, such as China and Asia. Instead, in 1993, redundant factory buildings were converted to form Clarks Village, the first purpose-built factory outlet in the UK. C&J Clark also had shoe factories, at one time at Bridgwater, Minehead, Westfield and Weston super Mare to provide employment outside the main summer tourist season, but those satellite sites were closed in the late 1980s, before the main site at Street. Dr. Martens shoes were also made in Somerset, by the Northampton-based R. Griggs Group, using redundant skilled shoemakers from C&J Clark; that work has also been transferred to Asia.

Question: What towns grew around the weaving Industry 
Answer: Castle Cary and Frome grew around the medieval weaving industry

Question: Why did Cj clark shoes leave the area 
Answer: the work was transferred to lower-wage areas, such as China and Asia

Question: What famous shoe brand was made in Somerset 
Answer: Dr. Martens shoes were also made in Somerset, by the Northampton-based R. Griggs Group
The county has a long tradition of supplying freestone and building stone. Quarries at Doulting supplied freestone used in the construction of Wells Cathedral. Bath stone is also widely used. Ralph Allen promoted its use in the early 18th century, as did Hans Price in the 19th century, but it was used long before then. It was mined underground at Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines, and as a result of cutting the Box Tunnel, at locations in Wiltshire such as Box. Bath stone is still used on a reduced scale today, but more often as a cladding rather than a structural material. Further south, Hamstone is the colloquial name given to stone from Ham Hill, which is also widely used in the construction industry. Blue Lias has been used locally as a building stone and as a raw material for lime mortar and Portland cement. Until the 1960s, Puriton had Blue Lias stone quarries, as did several other Polden villages. Its quarries also supplied a cement factory at Dunball, adjacent to the King's Sedgemoor Drain. Its derelict, early 20th century remains, was removed when the M5 motorway was constructed in the mid-1970s. Since the 1920s, the county has supplied aggregates. Foster Yeoman is Europe's large supplier of limestone aggregates, with quarries at Merehead Quarry. It has a dedicated railway operation, Mendip Rail, which is used to transport aggregates by rail from a group of Mendip quarries.

Question: What type of stone was supplied in the county 
Answer: supplying freestone and building stone

Question: Who promoted the use of stone from the  Bath area
Answer: Ralph Allen promoted its use in the early 18th century, as did Hans Price in the 19th century

Question: What are some uses for Blue Lias
Answer: Blue Lias has been used locally as a building stone and as a raw material for lime mortar and Portland cement

Question: What has been supplied by the county since the 1920's 
Answer: the county has supplied aggregates. Foster Yeoman is Europe's large supplier of limestone aggregates
Tourism is a major industry, estimated in 2001 to support around 23,000 people. Attractions include the coastal towns, part of the Exmoor National Park, the West Somerset Railway (a heritage railway), and the museum of the Fleet Air Arm at RNAS Yeovilton. The town of Glastonbury has mythical associations, including legends of a visit by the young Jesus of Nazareth and Joseph of Arimathea, with links to the Holy Grail, King Arthur, and Camelot, identified by some as Cadbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort. Glastonbury also gives its name to an annual open-air rock festival held in nearby Pilton. There are show caves open to visitors in the Cheddar Gorge, as well as its locally produced cheese, although there is now only one remaining cheese maker in the village of Cheddar.

Question: Tourism supports how many people in the County 
Answer: estimated in 2001 to support around 23,000 people

Question: Some of the county attractions are 
Answer: the coastal towns, part of the Exmoor National Park, the West Somerset Railway (a heritage railway), and the museum of the Fleet Air Arm at RNAS Yeovilton

Question: What does Glastonbury have associations with 
Answer: mythical associations, including legends of a visit by the young Jesus of Nazareth and Joseph of Arimathea, with links to the Holy Grail, King Arthur

Question: What type of festival is Glastonbury famous for 
Answer: Glastonbury also gives its name to an annual open-air rock festival held in nearby Pilton

Question: What type of cheese is the county famous for 
Answer: locally produced cheese, although there is now only one remaining cheese maker in the village of Cheddar
Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is a project to construct a 3,200 MW two reactor nuclear power station. On 18 October 2010, the British government announced that Hinkley Point – already the site of the disused Hinkley Point A and the still operational Hinkley Point B power stations – was one of the eight sites it considered suitable for future nuclear power stations. NNB Generation Company, a subsidiary of EDF, submitted an application for development consent to the Infrastructure Planning Commission on 31 October 2011. A protest group, Stop Hinkley, was formed to campaign for the closure of Hinkley Point B and oppose any expansion at the Hinkley Point site. In December 2013, the European Commission opened an investigation to assess whether the project breaks state-aid rules. On 8 October 2014 it was announced that the European Commission has approved the project, with an overwhelming majority and only four commissioners voting against the decision.

Question: What is Hinkley point C 
Answer: Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is a project to construct a 3,200 MW two reactor nuclear power station

Question: What was Stop Hinkley 
Answer: Stop Hinkley, was formed to campaign for the closure of Hinkley Point B and oppose any expansion at the Hinkley Point site

Question: What did the European Commission review 
Answer: opened an investigation to assess whether the project breaks state-aid rules

Question: How did the Commission vote turn out 
Answer: the European Commission has approved the project, with an overwhelming majority and only four commissioners voting against the decision.
Population growth is higher than the national average, with a 6.4% increase, in the Somerset County Council area, since 1991, and a 17% increase since 1981. The population density is 1.4 persons per hectare, which can be compared to 2.07 persons per hectare for the South West region. Within the county, population density ranges 0.5 in West Somerset to 2.2 persons per hectare in Taunton Deane. The percentage of the population who are economically active is higher than the regional and national average, and the unemployment rate is lower than the regional and national average.

Question: What is the population growth rate of Somerset county 
Answer: Population growth is higher than the national average, with a 6.4% increase, in the Somerset County Council area, since 1991, and a 17% increase since 1981

Question: The unemployment rate of the county 
Answer: the unemployment rate is lower than the regional and national average.

Question: What percentage of the population is economically active 
Answer: is higher than the regional and national average
Somerset has a high indigenous British population, with 98.8% registering as white British and 92.4% of these as born in the United Kingdom. Chinese is the largest ethnic group, while the black minority ethnic proportion of the total population is 2.9%. Over 25% of Somerset's population is concentrated in Taunton, Bridgwater and Yeovil. The rest of the county is rural and sparsely populated. Over 9 million tourist nights are spent in Somerset each year, which significantly increases the population at peak times.

Question: What percentage of the population is native 
Answer: Somerset has a high indigenous British population, with 98.8% registering as white British and 92.4% of these as born in the United Kingdom

Question: The largest ethnic group in somerset county is 
Answer: Chinese is the largest ethnic group

Question: Tauton Bridgewater and Yeovil has what concentration of the population
Answer: Over 25% of Somerset's population is concentrated in Taunton, Bridgwater and Yeovil

Question: How many tourist nights are spent in Somerset
Answer: Over 9 million tourist nights are spent in Somerset each year
The ceremonial county of Somerset consists of a two-tier non-metropolitan county, which is administered by Somerset County Council and five district councils, and two unitary authority areas (whose councils combine the functions of a county and a district). The five districts of Somerset are West Somerset, South Somerset, Taunton Deane, Mendip, and Sedgemoor. The two unitary authorities — which were established on 1 April 1996 following the break-up of the short-lived county of Avon — are North Somerset, and Bath & North East Somerset.

Question: How many tiers  does somerset county consist of 
Answer: The ceremonial county of Somerset consists of a two-tier non-metropolitan county

Question: What are the 5 districts of Somerset 
Answer: The five districts of Somerset are West Somerset, South Somerset, Taunton Deane, Mendip, and Sedgemoor

Question: What 2 Unitary authorities were established in april 1996 
Answer: North Somerset, and Bath & North East Somerset
All of the ceremonial county of Somerset is covered by the Avon and Somerset Constabulary, a police force which also covers Bristol and South Gloucestershire. The Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service was formed in 2007 upon the merger of the Somerset Fire and Rescue Service with its neighbouring Devon service; it covers the area of Somerset County Council as well as the entire ceremonial county of Devon. The unitary districts of North Somerset and Bath & North East Somerset are instead covered by the Avon Fire and Rescue Service, a service which also covers Bristol and South Gloucestershire. The South Western Ambulance Service covers the entire South West of England, including all of Somerset; prior to February 2013 the unitary districts of Somerset came under the Great Western Ambulance Service, which merged into South Western. The Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance is a charitable organisation based in the county.

Question: What police force covers the ceremonial county 
Answer: Somerset is covered by the Avon and Somerset Constabulary, a police force which also covers Bristol and South Gloucestershire

Question: What fire / rescue squad was formed in 2007 
Answer: The Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service was formed in 2007 upon the merger of the Somerset Fire and Rescue Service with its neighbouring Devon service

Question: What area does South western Ambulance  Service cover 
Answer: covers the entire South West of England, including all of Somerset

Question: What is the name of the charitable air ambulance service 
Answer: The Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts takes place most years in Pilton, near Shepton Mallet, attracting over 170,000 music and culture lovers from around the world to see world-famous entertainers. The Big Green Gathering which grew out of the Green fields at the Glastonbury Festival is held in the Mendip Hills between Charterhouse and Compton Martin each summer. The annual Bath Literature Festival is one of several local festivals in the county; others include the Frome Festival and the Trowbridge Village Pump Festival, which, despite its name, is held at Farleigh Hungerford in Somerset. The annual circuit of West Country Carnivals is held in a variety of Somerset towns during the autumn, forming a major regional festival, and the largest Festival of Lights in Europe.

Question: Where does the Glastonbury Music festival take place 
Answer: takes place most years in Pilton, near Shepton Mallet

Question: who holds a literature festival each summer 
Answer: The annual Bath Literature Festival is one of several local festivals in the county

Question: The annual Carnival is held when and where 
Answer: The annual circuit of West Country Carnivals is held in a variety of Somerset towns during the autumn
In Arthurian legend, Avalon became associated with Glastonbury Tor when monks at Glastonbury Abbey claimed to have discovered the bones of King Arthur and his queen. What is more certain is that Glastonbury was an important religious centre by 700 and claims to be "the oldest above-ground Christian church in the World" situated "in the mystical land of Avalon." The claim is based on dating the founding of the community of monks at AD 63, the year of the legendary visit of Joseph of Arimathea, who was supposed to have brought the Holy Grail. During the Middle Ages there were also important religious sites at Woodspring Priory and Muchelney Abbey. The present Diocese of Bath and Wells covers Somerset – with the exception of the Parish of Abbots Leigh with Leigh Woods in North Somerset – and a small area of Dorset. The Episcopal seat of the Bishop of Bath and Wells is now in the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew in the city of Wells, having previously been at Bath Abbey. Before the English Reformation, it was a Roman Catholic diocese; the county now falls within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Clifton. The Benedictine monastery Saint Gregory's Abbey, commonly known as Downside Abbey, is at Stratton-on-the-Fosse, and the ruins of the former Cistercian Cleeve Abbey are near the village of Washford.

Question: What does Artharian legend claim about Glastonbury
Answer: Avalon became associated with Glastonbury Tor when monks at Glastonbury Abbey claimed to have discovered the bones of King Arthur and his queen

Question: What is built in Avalon 
Answer: the oldest above-ground Christian church in the World" situated "in the mystical land of Avalon

Question: The Episcopal seat of the Bishop is now where 
Answer: The Episcopal seat of the Bishop of Bath and Wells is now in the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew in the city of Wells, having previously been at Bath Abbey

Question: Where is St Greggorys abbey
Answer: is at Stratton-on-the-Fosse, and the ruins of the former Cistercian Cleeve Abbey are near the village of Washford
The county has several museums; those at Bath include the American Museum in Britain, the Museum of Bath Architecture, the Herschel Museum of Astronomy, the Jane Austen Centre, and the Roman Baths. Other visitor attractions which reflect the cultural heritage of the county include: Claverton Pumping Station, Dunster Working Watermill, the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton, Nunney Castle, The Helicopter Museum in Weston-super-Mare, King John's Hunting Lodge in Axbridge, Blake Museum Bridgwater, Radstock Museum, Museum of Somerset in Taunton, the Somerset Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury, and Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum.

Question: What some of the Museums in Bath
Answer: American Museum in Britain, the Museum of Bath Architecture, the Herschel Museum of Astronomy, the Jane Austen Centre, and the Roman Baths

Question: What are some other attractions 
Answer: Claverton Pumping Station, Dunster Working Watermill, the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton, Nunney Castle, The Helicopter Museum in Weston-super-Mare

Question: Where is the Museum of Somerset 
Answer: in Taunton

Question: What is the name of the museum in Glastonbury 
Answer: the Somerset Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury
Somerset has 11,500 listed buildings, 523 scheduled monuments, 192 conservation areas, 41 parks and gardens including those at Barrington Court, Holnicote Estate, Prior Park Landscape Garden and Tintinhull Garden, 36 English Heritage sites and 19 National Trust sites, including Clevedon Court, Fyne Court, Montacute House and Tyntesfield as well as Stembridge Tower Mill, the last remaining thatched windmill in England. Other historic houses in the county which have remained in private ownership or used for other purposes include Halswell House and Marston Bigot. A key contribution of Somerset architecture is its medieval church towers. Jenkins writes, "These structures, with their buttresses, bell-opening tracery and crowns, rank with Nottinghamshire alabaster as England's finest contribution to medieval art."

Question: How many listed buildings in Somerset 
Answer: Somerset has 11,500 listed buildings

Question: How many monuments on Somerset 
Answer: 523 scheduled monuments

Question: What is a key type of Architecture in Somerset 
Answer: its medieval church towers

Question: Name some historic private houses in the county 
Answer: Halswell House and Marston Bigot.
Bath Rugby play at the Recreation Ground in Bath, and the Somerset County Cricket Club are based at the County Ground in Taunton. The county gained its first Football League club in 2003, when Yeovil Town won promotion to Division Three as Football Conference champions. They had achieved numerous FA Cup victories over football League sides in the past 50 years, and since joining the elite they have won promotion again—as League Two champions in 2005. They came close to yet another promotion in 2007, when they reached the League One playoff final, but lost to Blackpool at the newly reopened Wembley Stadium. Yeovil achieved promotion to the Championship in 2013 after beating Brentford in the playoff final. Horse racing courses are at Taunton and Wincanton.

Question: Where does the rugby team play 
Answer: Bath Rugby play at the Recreation Ground in Bath

Question: The county's first football team is 
Answer: Yeovil Town won promotion to Division Three as Football Conference champions

Question: When did yeovil achieve promotion to the champion league 
Answer: Yeovil achieved promotion to the Championship in 2013 after beating Brentford in the playoff final

Question: Where are the horse races held 
Answer: Horse racing courses are at Taunton and Wincanton
The Somerset Coal Canal was built in the early 19th century to reduce the cost of transportation of coal and other heavy produce. The first 16 kilometres (10 mi), running from a junction with the Kennet and Avon Canal, along the Cam valley, to a terminal basin at Paulton, were in use by 1805, together with several tramways. A planned 11.7 km (7.3 mi) branch to Midford was never built, but in 1815 a tramway was laid along its towing path. In 1871 the tramway was purchased by the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR), and operated until the 1950s.

Question: Why was the Somerset county Canal built 
Answer: to reduce the cost of transportation of coal and other heavy produce

Question: What was in use along the canal 
Answer: several tramways

Question: What was never built 
Answer: A planned 11.7 km (7.3 mi) branch to Midford was never built

Question: What was laid on the path to Midford 
Answer: in 1815 a tramway was laid along its towing path

Question: Who purchased the tramway in 1871
Answer: In 1871 the tramway was purchased by the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR), and operated until the 1950s
The usefulness of the canals was short-lived, though some have now been restored for recreation. The 19th century also saw the construction of railways to and through Somerset. The county was served by five pre-1923 Grouping railway companies: the Great Western Railway (GWR); a branch of the Midland Railway (MR) to Bath Green Park (and another one to Bristol); the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, and the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR). The former main lines of the GWR are still in use today, although many of its branch lines were scrapped under the notorious Beeching Axe. The former lines of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway closed completely, as has the branch of the Midland Railway to Bath Green Park (and to Bristol St Philips); however, the L&SWR survived as a part of the present West of England Main Line. None of these lines, in Somerset, are electrified. Two branch lines, the West and East Somerset Railways, were rescued and transferred back to private ownership as "heritage" lines. The fifth railway was a short-lived light railway, the Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Light Railway. The West Somerset Mineral Railway carried the iron ore from the Brendon Hills to Watchet.

Question: How long were canals used 
Answer: usefulness of the canals was short-lived, though some have now been restored for recreation

Question: What was built int the 19th century 
Answer: 19th century also saw the construction of railways to and through Somerset

Question: How many railways served the county 
Answer: The county was served by five pre-1923 Grouping railway companies

Question: Were any of the railways  electrified 
Answer: None of these lines, in Somerset, are electrified.

Question: What railways lines are still in use today 
Answer: The former main lines of the GWR are still in use today, although many of its branch lines were scrapped under the notorious Beeching Axe
Until the 1960s the piers at Weston-super-Mare, Clevedon, Portishead and Minehead were served by the paddle steamers of P and A Campbell who ran regular services to Barry and Cardiff as well as Ilfracombe and Lundy Island. The pier at Burnham-on-Sea was used for commercial goods, one of the reasons for the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway was to provide a link between the Bristol Channel and the English Channel. The pier at Burnham-on-Sea is the shortest pier in the UK. In the 1970s the Royal Portbury Dock was constructed to provide extra capacity for the Port of Bristol.

Question: What  did paddle streamers serve until the 1960's 
Answer: the piers at Weston-super-Mare, Clevedon, Portishead and Minehead were served by the paddle steamers of P and A Campbell

Question: What was the pier on Burnham -on-sea used for 
Answer: The pier at Burnham-on-Sea was used for commercial goods

Question: What is the shortest pier in the UK 
Answer: The pier at Burnham-on-Sea is the shortest pier in the UK

Question: What was constructed in the 1970's 
Answer: In the 1970s the Royal Portbury Dock was constructed to provide extra capacity for the Port of Bristol
State schools in Somerset are provided by three local education authorities: Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, and the larger Somerset County Council. All state schools are comprehensive. In some areas primary, infant and junior schools cater for ages four to eleven, after which the pupils move on to secondary schools. There is a three-tier system of first, middle and upper schools in the Cheddar Valley, and in West Somerset, while most other schools in the county use the two-tier system. Somerset has 30 state and 17 independent secondary schools; Bath and North East Somerset has 13 state and 5 independent secondary schools; and North Somerset has 10 state and 2 independent secondary schools, excluding sixth form colleges.

Question: What are the  state schools in somerset 
Answer: Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, and the larger Somerset County Council

Question: What are the 3 tiers of school 
Answer: a three-tier system of first, middle and upper schools in the Cheddar Valley, and in West Somerset

Question: How many state and independent secondary  schools in Somerset 
Answer: Somerset has 30 state and 17 independent secondary schools
Some of the county's secondary schools have specialist school status. Some schools have sixth forms and others transfer their sixth formers to colleges. Several schools can trace their origins back many years, such as The Blue School in Wells and Richard Huish College in Taunton. Others have changed their names over the years such as Beechen Cliff School which was started in 1905 as the City of Bath Boys' School and changed to its present name in 1972 when the grammar school was amalgamated with a local secondary modern school, to form a comprehensive school. Many others were established and built since the Second World War. In 2006, 5,900 pupils in Somerset sat GCSE examinations, with 44.5% achieving 5 grades A-C including English and Maths (compared to 45.8% for England).

Question: What schools can trace their origins back 
Answer: Several schools can trace their origins back many years, such as The Blue School in Wells and Richard Huish College in Taunton

Question: What was the original name of the Beechen Cliff School
Answer: started in 1905 as the City of Bath Boys' School

Question: In 2006 Somerset students performed how well compared to England as a whole 
Answer: In 2006, 5,900 pupils in Somerset sat GCSE examinations, with 44.5% achieving 5 grades A-C including English and Maths (compared to 45.8% for England).
There is also a range of independent or public schools. Many of these are for pupils between 11 and 18 years, such as King's College, Taunton and Taunton School. King's School, Bruton, was founded in 1519 and received royal foundation status around 30 years later in the reign of Edward VI. Millfield is the largest co-educational boarding school. There are also preparatory schools for younger children, such as All Hallows, and Hazlegrove Preparatory School. Chilton Cantelo School offers places both to day pupils and boarders aged 7 to 16. Other schools provide education for children from the age of 3 or 4 years through to 18, such as King Edward's School, Bath, Queen's College, Taunton and Wells Cathedral School which is one of the five established musical schools for school-age children in Britain. Some of these schools have religious affiliations, such as Monkton Combe School, Prior Park College, Sidcot School which is associated with the Religious Society of Friends, Downside School which is a Roman Catholic public school in Stratton-on-the-Fosse, situated next to the Benedictine Downside Abbey, and Kingswood School, which was founded by John Wesley in 1748 in Kingswood near Bristol, originally for the education of the sons of the itinerant ministers (clergy) of the Methodist Church.

Question: What school in Bruton was given royal  foundation status 
Answer: King's School, Bruton, was founded in 1519 and received royal foundation status around 30 years later

Question: What are some prepatory schools for younger students 
Answer: such as All Hallows, and Hazlegrove Preparatory School

Question: What is one of the Musical schools 
Answer: Wells Cathedral School which is one of the five established musical schools for school-age children in Britain

Question: What is a roman catholic school 
Answer: Downside School which is a Roman Catholic public school in Stratton-on-the-Fosse
The University of Bath and Bath Spa University are higher education establishments in the north-east of the county. The University of Bath gained its Royal Charter in 1966, although its origins go back to the Bristol Trade School (founded 1856) and Bath School of Pharmacy (founded 1907). It has a purpose-built campus at Claverton on the outskirts of Bath, and has 15,000 students. Bath Spa University, which is based at Newton St Loe, achieved university status in 2005, and has origins including the Bath Academy of Art (founded 1898), Bath Teacher Training College, and the Bath College of Higher Education. It has several campuses and 5,500 students.

Question: Bath school of pharmacy founded in 
Answer: Bath School of Pharmacy (founded 1907

Question: When did Bath Spa Gain University status
Answer: achieved university status in 2005

Question: When did the university of Bath gain royal charter 
Answer: The University of Bath gained its Royal Charter in 1966, although its origins go back to the Bristol Trade School

Question: What University are in Bath 
Answer: The University of Bath and Bath Spa University are higher education establishments in the north-east of the county
Yale traces its beginnings to "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School," passed by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut on October 9, 1701, while meeting in New Haven. The Act was an effort to create an institution to train ministers and lay leadership for Connecticut. Soon thereafter, a group of ten Congregationalist ministers: Samuel Andrew, Thomas Buckingham, Israel Chauncy, Samuel Mather, Rev. James Noyes II (son of James Noyes), James Pierpont, Abraham Pierson, Noadiah Russell, Joseph Webb and Timothy Woodbridge, all alumni of Harvard, met in the study of Reverend Samuel Russell in Branford, Connecticut, to pool their books to form the school's library. The group, led by James Pierpont, is now known as "The Founders".[citation needed]

Question: When was "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School" approved?
Answer: October 9, 1701

Question: Who voted on "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School"?
Answer: General Court of the Colony of Connecticut

Question: What was the name of the group that started Yale's library?
Answer: The Founders

Question: Why was "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School" proposed?
Answer: to create an institution to train ministers and lay leadership for Connecticut

Question: Where did "The Founders" go to school?
Answer: Harvard
Serious American students of theology and divinity, particularly in New England, regarded Hebrew as a classical language, along with Greek and Latin, and essential for study of the Old Testament in the original words. The Reverend Ezra Stiles, president of the College from 1778 to 1795, brought with him his interest in the Hebrew language as a vehicle for studying ancient Biblical texts in their original language (as was common in other schools), requiring all freshmen to study Hebrew (in contrast to Harvard, where only upperclassmen were required to study the language) and is responsible for the Hebrew phrase אורים ותמים (Urim and Thummim) on the Yale seal. Stiles' greatest challenge occurred in July 1779 when hostile British forces occupied New Haven and threatened to raze the College. However, Yale graduate Edmund Fanning, Secretary to the British General in command of the occupation, interceded and the College was saved. Fanning later was granted an honorary degree LL.D., at 1803, for his efforts.

Question: When was Ezra Stiles president of Yale?
Answer: 1778 to 1795

Question: What course did Ezra Stiles require freshmen to take?
Answer: Hebrew

Question: When did the British threaten to take over the college?
Answer: July 1779

Question: Who saved Yale from the British raid?
Answer: Edmund Fanning

Question: What degree was Edmund Fanning given for his services?
Answer: an honorary degree LL.D
Rare books are found in several Yale collections. The Beinecke Rare Book Library has a large collection of rare books and manuscripts. The Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library includes important historical medical texts, including an impressive collection of rare books, as well as historical medical instruments. The Lewis Walpole Library contains the largest collection of 18th‑century British literary works. The Elizabethan Club, technically a private organization, makes its Elizabethan folios and first editions available to qualified researchers through Yale.

Question: Where would one find a collection of historical medical equipment?
Answer: The Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library

Question: What library contains the biggest assortment of 18th century British literary works?
Answer: The Lewis Walpole Library

Question: Where can qualified researchers obtain Elizabethan folios? 
Answer: The Elizabethan Club

Question: What library has a vast assortment of rare books and manuscripts?
Answer: The Beinecke Rare Book Library
Borders Books, started in Ann Arbor, was opened by brothers Tom and Louis Borders in 1971 with a stock of used books. The Borders chain was based in the city, as was its flagship store until it closed in September 2011. Domino's Pizza's headquarters is near Ann Arbor on Domino's Farms, a 271-acre (110 ha) Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired complex just northeast of the city. Another Ann Arbor-based company is Zingerman's Delicatessen, which serves sandwiches and has developed businesses under a variety of brand names. Zingerman's has grown into a family of companies which offers a variety of products (bake shop, mail order, creamery, coffee) and services (business education). Flint Ink Corp., another Ann Arbor-based company, was the world's largest privately held ink manufacturer until it was acquired by Stuttgart-based XSYS Print Solutions in October 2005. Avfuel, a global supplier of aviation fuels and services, is also headquartered in Ann Arbor. Aastrom Biosciences, a publicly traded company that develops stem cell treatments for cardiovascular diseases, is headquartered in Ann Arbor.

Question: When did the Borders Books open up in Ann Arbor?
Answer: 1971

Question: Who opened the Borders Books store in Ann Arbor?
Answer: Tom and Louis Borders

Question: Which pizza chain is headquartered at Ann Arbor?
Answer: Domino's Pizza's

Question: Which company was the world's largest privately held ink manufacturer till 2005?
Answer: Flint Ink Corp

Question: Avfuel, a global supplier of what services is headquartered in Ann Arbor?
Answer: aviation fuels
It is in the great churches and cathedrals and in a number of civic buildings that the Gothic style was expressed most powerfully, its characteristics lending themselves to appeals to the emotions, whether springing from faith or from civic pride. A great number of ecclesiastical buildings remain from this period, of which even the smallest are often structures of architectural distinction while many of the larger churches are considered priceless works of art and are listed with UNESCO as World Heritage Sites. For this reason a study of Gothic architecture is largely a study of cathedrals and churches.

Question: What is an example of where the Gothic style is expressed most strongly?
Answer: churches and cathedrals

Question: Where do the emotions which traits of the Gothic style represent, originate from? 
Answer: faith or from civic pride

Question: A great number of what type of buildings still remain from this period today?
Answer: ecclesiastical

Question: With what organization are many Gothic cathedral listed with as World Heritage Sites?
Answer: UNESCO

Question: Why are larger cathedrals and churches associated with the Gothic style?
Answer: larger churches are considered priceless works of art
The term "Gothic architecture" originated as a pejorative description. Giorgio Vasari used the term "barbarous German style" in his Lives of the Artists to describe what is now considered the Gothic style, and in the introduction to the Lives he attributes various architectural features to "the Goths" whom he holds responsible for destroying the ancient buildings after they conquered Rome, and erecting new ones in this style. At the time in which Vasari was writing, Italy had experienced a century of building in the Classical architectural vocabulary revived in the Renaissance and seen as evidence of a new Golden Age of learning and refinement.

Question: What type of description did the term "Gothic architecture" originate as?
Answer: a pejorative description

Question: Who used the term "barbarous German style" to portray what is known today as the Gothic style?
Answer: Giorgio Vasari

Question: Who does Vasari believe destroyed ancient buildings after they conquered Rome?
Answer: "the Goths"

Question: How long had Italy undergone building in a Classical architecture style at the time of Vasari?
Answer: a century

Question: In what period was the Classical architecture vocabulary revived? 
Answer: the Renaissance
The Catholic Church prevailed across Europe at this time, influencing not only faith but also wealth and power. Bishops were appointed by the feudal lords (kings, dukes and other landowners) and they often ruled as virtual princes over large estates. The early Medieval periods had seen a rapid growth in monasticism, with several different orders being prevalent and spreading their influence widely. Foremost were the Benedictines whose great abbey churches vastly outnumbered any others in France and England. A part of their influence was that towns developed around them and they became centers of culture, learning and commerce. The Cluniac and Cistercian Orders were prevalent in France, the great monastery at Cluny having established a formula for a well planned monastic site which was then to influence all subsequent monastic building for many centuries.

Question: What church was widespread across Europe at this time?
Answer: The Catholic Church

Question: Who were bishops appointed by?
Answer: by the feudal lords (kings, dukes and other landowners)

Question: Which periods saw a quick growth in Monasticism? 
Answer: The early Medieval periods

Question: What types of church were the Benedictines known for?
Answer: great abbey churches

Question: What is one type of Benedictine order that was common in France?
Answer: Cistercian Orders
It was principally the widespread introduction of a single feature, the pointed arch, which was to bring about the change that separates Gothic from Romanesque. The technological change permitted a stylistic change which broke the tradition of massive masonry and solid walls penetrated by small openings, replacing it with a style where light appears to triumph over substance. With its use came the development of many other architectural devices, previously put to the test in scattered buildings and then called into service to meet the structural, aesthetic and ideological needs of the new style. These include the flying buttresses, pinnacles and traceried windows which typify Gothic ecclesiastical architecture. But while pointed arch is so strongly associated with the Gothic style, it was first used in Western architecture in buildings that were in other ways clearly Romanesque, notably Durham Cathedral in the north of England, Monreale Cathedral and Cathedral of Cefalù in Sicily, Autun Cathedral in France.

Question: What was the most important single design aspect that separated the Gothic style from the Romanesque? 
Answer: the pointed arch

Question: What is one example of a Gothic style element that was able to be incorporated because of technological innovation?
Answer: the flying buttresses

Question: What is another example of a Gothic style element that was able to be incorporated because of technological innovation?
Answer: traceried windows

Question: What is the name of the cathedral in Northern England that first displayed the use of the pointed arch?
Answer: Durham Cathedral

Question: What is the name of the cathedral in Sicily that first displayed the use of the pointed arch?
Answer: Cathedral of Cefalù
The characteristic forms that were to define Gothic architecture grew out of Romanesque architecture and developed at several different geographic locations, as the result of different influences and structural requirements. While barrel vaults and groin vaults are typical of Romanesque architecture, ribbed vaults were used in the naves of two Romanesque churches in Caen, Abbey of Saint-Étienne and Abbaye aux Dames in 1120. Another early example is the nave and apse area of the Cathedral of Cefalù in 1131. The ribbed vault over the north transept at Durham Cathedral in England, built from 1128 to 1133, is probably earlier still and was the first time pointed arches were used in a high vault.

Question: The distinctive forms that describe Gothic architecture developed out of which style?
Answer: Romanesque

Question: Barrel and groin vaults are examples of what kind of architecture?
Answer: Romanesque architecture

Question: What type of vaults were used in the Abbey of Saint-Étienne and Abbaye aux Dames?
Answer: ribbed vaults

Question: When was Durham Cathedral constructed?
Answer: from 1128 to 1133

Question: What cathedral first made use of pointed arches in high vaults? 
Answer: Durham Cathedral in England
At the completion of the west front in 1140, Abbot Suger moved on to the reconstruction of the eastern end, leaving the Carolingian nave in use. He designed a choir that would be suffused with light. To achieve his aims, his masons drew on the several new features which evolved or had been introduced to Romanesque architecture, the pointed arch, the ribbed vault, the ambulatory with radiating chapels, the clustered columns supporting ribs springing in different directions and the flying buttresses which enabled the insertion of large clerestory windows.

Question: When was the west front of Saint Denis completed?
Answer: in 1140

Question: What portion of the reconstruction of Saint Denis was begun after the completion of the west front? 
Answer: the eastern end

Question: What style of nave was left unaltered during this portion of the reconstruction of Saint Denis?
Answer: the Carolingian nave

Question: What style of columns did Abbott Suger use when reconstructing Saint Denis?
Answer: clustered columns

Question: What design element allowed the use of large clerestory windows?
Answer: the flying buttresses