Statistics for Famous Portuguese People

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Hint	Person	% Correct
Five times voted the best player in international football	Cristiano Ronaldo	99%
Explorer who sailed to India	Vasco da Gama	83%
Explorer who started the first circumnavigation of the world	Ferdinand Magellan	77%
Football manager who once was dubbed "The Special One" by the British media	José Mourinho	68%
Football player nicknamed "Black Panther"	Eusébio	61%
A major city in Texas is named after this Catholic saint	Anthony of Padua	59%
Portugal's top scorer before the above	Luìs Figo	55%
First king of Brazil; grandchild of the above	Pedro	45%
Prince who is given credit for kicking off the Age of Discovery in the early 1400s	{Henry} the Navigator	44%
Current secretary-general of the United Nations	António Guterres	43%
20th century dictator who reframed the Portuguese regime as the "New State"	António Salazar	43%
She sang "Like a Bird" and "Turn off the Light"	Nelly Furtado	35%
King of Portugal whose reign saw Portugal's overseas expansion	John I	28%
Winner of the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest	Salvador Sobral	28%
Author of "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ" who won the 1998 Nobel Prize	José Saramago	27%
First Queen of Portugal who ruled between 1777–1816	Maria I	27%
Brazil "discoverer" who was the first human in history to ever be in four continents	Pedro Álvares Cabral	27%
The best-selling Portuguese artist of all time nicknamed the "Queen of Fado"	Amália Rodrigues	24%
First European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa	Bartolomeu Dias	23%
Manager of national football teams from Portugal, Iran, and Colombia	Carlos Queiroz	20%