Statistics for Historical Portuguese

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
First European to reach India by sea	Vasco da Gama	91%
Issued in the first circumnavigation in the world	Ferdinand Magellan	81%
Dictator responsible for the Estado Novo regime	António de Oliveira Salazar	37%
Main initiator of the Age of Discovery and funded the creation of the caravel and many early voyages	Henry the Navigator	35%
Explorer who first landed on the Cape of Good Hope	Bartolomeu Dias	30%
Longest reign of any Portuguese King and started the Anglo-Portuguese alliance	João I	30%
Writer and poet known for creating heteronyms	Fernando Pessoa	28%
Made "Saint Peter" and "The Last Supper" in the Cathedral of Viseu	Grão Vasco	16%
Won a Nobel Prize of Literature for his novels against the Catholic Church and the EU	José Saramago	16%
First queen of Portugal who had moved the Portuguese capital to Rio de Janeiro in the Napoleonic Wars	Maria I	14%
Poet known for this work "Os Lusíadas"	Luís de Camões	12%
Discovered the coast of Brazil and the first voyage to touch four continents	Pedro Álvares Cabral	12%
Admiral and Governor of Portuguese India that conquered Goa and Malacca	Afonso de Albuquerque	9%
First king of Portugal	Afonso I	9%
"Queen of Fado"	Amália Rodrigues	9%
Consul that denied the Portuguese government, issuing visas and passports to refugees and Jews fleeing Nazi Germany	Aristides de Sousa Mendes	2%
A founder of modern psychosurgery and developed surgical procedure lobotomy	Egas Moniz	2%
Known as the "Grocer King" for capitalizing the spice trade	João III	2%