Statistics for Rio de Janeiro True or False?

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Rio is the capital of Brazil	False	91%
Rio annually hosts the world's largest Carnival	True	83%
More than one in five people in Rio live in favelas, or slums	True	83%
Jorge Luis Borges, Lionel Messi and Pope Francis were all born in Rio	False	79%
Rio is the largest city in Brazil	False	76%
Rio was once the capital of the Portuguese Empire	True	74%
Rio is further north than Cape Town	True	70%
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro began his political career in Rio	True	63%
Rio is the oldest city in Brazil	False	61%
Rio is the only city in the southern hemisphere to have hosted the Summer Olympics	False	60%
Rio's temperature in winter sometimes dips below freezing overnight	False	59%
Rio sits at the mouth of the January River, from which it derives its name	False	51%
A majority of residents of Rio are black	False	46%
By ridership, Rio has the largest public bus network in the world	True	43%
Christ the Redeemer is the tallest statue of Jesus Christ in the world	False	35%