Statistics for Rio de Janeiro City Trivia

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
Event hosted by Rio de Janeiro in 2016	Summer Olympics	98%
Planned city that replaced Rio de Janeiro as the nation's capital in 1960	Brasília	96%
Famous statue that became one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2007	Christ the {Redeemer}	93%
Animated movie about a blue domesticated macaw in Rio	Rio	84%
Name for the shanty towns around the city	Favela	81%
Most famous beaches of Rio de Janeiro	Copacabana	79%
Most famous beaches of Rio de Janeiro	Ipanema	79%
Mountain in eastern Rio with a cable car	Sugarloaf	71%
1997 and 2002 Ballon d'Or winner as the world's best football player	Ronaldo	70%
Meaning of the city's name	River of {January}	69%
Van Diesel-Paul Walker racing 2011 movie	Fast Five	68%
Rio de Janeiro became the capital of this country in 1808	Portugal	68%
Largest stadium where 1950 and 2014 FIFA World Cup finals were held	Maracanã	57%
Movie about two kids who take different paths in life in those areas of the city; one becoming a photographer, and the other a kingpin	City of God	47%
Nation's top oil-company based in Rio	Petrobras	40%
Demonym used to refer to anything related to the City of Rio de Janeiro	Carioca	38%
Neighbourhood with Latin America's most expensive price per residential square meter	Leblon	30%
Airport code of "Rio de Janeiro/Galeão International Airport"	GIG	27%
Name one of the two largest cities in Rio's metro area, besides Rio itself	São Gonçalo \| Duque de Caxias	26%
Famous Bossa Nova musician for whom the airport is named	Antônio Carlos Jobim	25%