| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| the continent from which the workforce was brought to the Brazilian plantations | Africa | 93%
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| great sports events taking place in Brazil in the 2010s | World Cup | 86%
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| valuable metal discovered in the early 18th century | gold | 82%
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| son of the above and first emperor of Brazil | Pedro I | 82%
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| the capital of the colony from 1763 | Rio de Janeiro | 82%
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| Summer Olympics | 82%
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| first female president (2011–2016) | Dilma Rousseff | 79%
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| source of the largest number of European immigrants in the 19th century (not counting Portugal) | Italy | 79%
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| Portuguese sailor who discovered Brazil for Europeans | Pedro Álvares Cabral | 75%
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| president and dictator during WWII | Getúlio Vargas | 64%
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| first president of Brazil (1889) | Deodoro da Fonseca | 54%
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| the practice of colonizers against which the Tamoio uprising broke out in 1554 | slavery | 46%
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| the main crop in the 17th century, brought from Madeira | sugarcane | 43%
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| Portuguese king who took refuge in Brazil during the Napoleonic Wars | John VI | 39%
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| first European name of Brazil | Santa Cruz | 39%
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| an island in the Amazon delta, a place of development of pre-Columbian civilization | Marajó | 32%
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| order responsible for the Christianization of the region | Society of Jesus | 7%
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