Statistics for History of Portugal

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
the city returned to China in 1999	Macau	86%
the largest Portuguese colony in America	Brazil	76%
war between Christians and Muslims throughout the Middle Ages	reconquista	57%
prime minister from 1932 to 1968	Antonio de Oliveira Salazar	52%
prince who became famous for organizing exploratory expeditions	Henry the Navigator	52%
first European to reach the Cape of Good Hope	Bartolomeu Dias	48%
the capital of the above	Braga	48%
Secretary-General of the UN since 2017	Antonio Guterres	43%
dynasty founded in 1385 by John I	Aviz	38%
dynasty that replaced the above	Braganza	33%
parliament founded in the 13th century (with the same name as the Spanish)	cortes	33%
country that controlled southern Portugal from the 8th to the 11th centuries	Emirate/Caliphate of Cordoba	33%
ancient tribe that fought under Viriathus against the Romans	Lusitanians	33%
first king, crowned in 1139	Alfonso I	29%
Germanic tribe that settled in the early 5th century	Suebi	29%
colloquial name of the 1974 coup	Carnation Revolution	24%
dynasty ruling from 1581 to 1640	Habsburg	19%
Indian city visited by Vasco da Gama in 1498	Calicut	10%
Basque explorer who commanded the expedition around the world after Magellan’s death	Juan Sebastian Elcano	10%