Around the World in 10 Questions [1] Quiz

Answer: Qing

Also known as the Manchu dynasty as it was founded by a clan from Manchuria (northeastern China today), the name 'Qing' means 'clear'. Having captured Beijing in 1644, it extended its rule to most of modern-day China within two years.
The most significant Qing leader was Kangxi, the dynasty's third emperor (and the second to rule over the whole of China). His 61-year rule between 1661 and 1722 makes him the longest-reigning emperor in Chinese history. Military victories over both the Taiwanese government and Czarist Russia enabled him to expand his empire and to bring about a period of relative calm after decades of war.
Of the other choices, the Ming dynasty ruled from 1368-1644, the Song from 960-1279 (split between Northern and Southern Song), and the Tang from 618-907.

Answer: Mark Antony

Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony in English) was the son of a cousin of Julius Caesar. He was a significant military leader, a politician, and a key ally of Octavian, who became the first emperor of the Roman Empire as Augustus.
Antony is probably best remembered for his relationship with the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, which has been immortalized in literature and film. Together, they had three children, Ptolemy Philadelphus and the twins Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene II.
It was from his fourth marriage, to Octavia Minor (sister of Augustus), that Antony initiated the line that spawned Claudius, Caligula, Agrippina and Nero.

Answer: Greece

The derivation of the word is from 'fustagno' (Italian), which relates to the fabric used to make these pleated kilts that probably evolved from the togas of Roman times.
The only soldiers to still wear such garments are from Greece, and then primarily only ceremonial units. Similar garments exist in the traditional dress of numerous countries in the Balkan region, particular Albania, where folk dancers wear something very similar.

Answer: George Bush

Barbara Pierce married George Herbert Walker Bush. She was the 33rd Second Lady of the US when Bush was Ronald Reagan's Vice-President, and she became First Lady when he became the 41st President in January 1989. She is also distantly related (the great-great-granddaughter of a fourth cousin) to the 14th President, Franklin Pierce.
She shares the distinction of being both the wife and the mother of a US President with only Abigail Adams.

Answer: Loire

This dry white wine is the most plentiful of those produced in the Loire Valley in northwestern France. Specifically, most Muscadet comes from the area surrounding the city of Nantes. Muscadet is one of the few exceptions to the general rule that French wines are named after the region in which they are produced.

Answer: Arkansas

Ladd, who starred as the title character in the classic western 'Shane', was born in Hot Springs AR. Steenburgen, winner of the 1980 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 'Melvin and Howard' hails from Newport AR. Charles Liston, 'The Big Bear', World Heavyweight boxing champion 1962-64 began life in Sand Slough AR. John Grisham, a former lawyer and now one of the world's best-selling novelists, hails from Jonesboro AR. Country singer J.R. Cash, aka 'The Man in Black', called Kingsland AR home. Other famous people who were born in 'The Land of Opportunity' include President Bill Clinton (Hope AR), country singer Glen Campbell (Delight AR), Hall of Fame Cubs and Cardinals pitcher Jerome 'Dizzy' Dean (Lucas AR), former Chicago Bulls star Scottie Pippen (Hamburg AR), and General Douglas MacArthur (in the state capital, Little Rock AR).

Answer: Finland

Tarja Kaarina Halonen, born in Helsinki on Christmas Eve 1943, became Finland's first female President when narrowly elected for a 6-year term in 2000. A lawyer by profession, she won a widely predicted second term in 2006.

Answer: South Australia

The fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories, South Australia is home to some 1.6 million people, about 65% of whom live in the capital, Adelaide. Unlike the rest of the country, South Australia began life in 1836 as a British community for free immigrants rather than as a convict colony.

Many of Australia's finest wines are produced in the state. South Australia has produced many of the country's finest sportsmen including cricketers Ian and Greg Chappel (from Unley), golfer Geoff Ogilvy, tennis player Lleyton Hewitt and Tour de France cyclist Stuart O'Grady (all from Adelaide).

Answer: Dominican Republic

Located at the mouth of the Ozama River and with a population in excess of 2 million (the seventh largest city in North America), Santo Domingo de Guzman is the capital of the Dominican Republic. Officially founded on August 5, 1498, the first European settlers actually arrived here two years earlier and the city soon became the centre of Spanish colonial operations in the New World.

Answer: Belgium

Although England, France, Spain and Portugal have all been involved in numerous battles and wars in their long and often aggressive histories (and Germany in her rather shorter one), they have more often than not arranged to fight those battles on someone else's land. Because of its unfortunate position slap bang in the middle between the most war-hungry nations in Europe, many of those battles have been fought in Belgium. Frequent battles between the Spanish and the Dutch, beginning with the Battle of Turnhout in 1597, were fought in what is now Belgium. Most battles in the Franco-Spanish and Franco-Austrian wars during the 17th and 18th centuries were fought here too, as were numerous battles of the Napoleonic Wars, most notably the Battle of Waterloo.

Some of the bloodiest battles of WWI were fought in Belgium -- Yser, Ypres, for example -- remembered poetically in 'Flanders Fields'. In WWII, Antwerp was a major strategic city and saw some of the fiercest fighting of the entire conflict.