| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| First European to reach India by sea | Vasco da Gama | 91%
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| Issued in the first circumnavigation in the world | Ferdinand Magellan | 80%
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| Dictator responsible for the Estado Novo regime | António de Oliveira Salazar | 48%
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| Main initiator of the Age of Discovery and funded the creation of the caravel and many early voyages | Henry the Navigator | 45%
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| Explorer who first landed on the Cape of Good Hope | Bartolomeu Dias | 38%
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| Longest reign of any Portuguese King and started the Anglo-Portuguese alliance | João I | 33%
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| Writer and poet known for creating heteronyms | Fernando Pessoa | 30%
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| Won a Nobel Prize of Literature for his novels against the Catholic Church and the EU | José Saramago | 21%
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| Discovered the coast of Brazil and the first voyage to touch four continents | Pedro Álvares Cabral | 20%
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| Made "Saint Peter" and "The Last Supper" in the Cathedral of Viseu | Grão Vasco | 16%
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| Poet known for this work "Os Lusíadas" | Luís de Camões | 16%
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| First queen of Portugal who had moved the Portuguese capital to Rio de Janeiro in the Napoleonic Wars | Maria I | 15%
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| First king of Portugal | Afonso I | 14%
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| Admiral and Governor of Portuguese India that conquered Goa and Malacca | Afonso de Albuquerque | 13%
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| "Queen of Fado" | Amália Rodrigues | 10%
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| A founder of modern psychosurgery and developed surgical procedure lobotomy | Egas Moniz | 8%
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| Known as the "Grocer King" for capitalizing the spice trade | João III | 4%
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| Consul that denied the Portuguese government, issuing visas and passports to refugees and Jews fleeing Nazi Germany | Aristides de Sousa Mendes | 1%
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