Statistics for Famous Portuguese People A-Z

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Lifetime	Letter	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1985-present	R	The only football player to win four European Golden Shoe awards	Cristiano Ronaldo	79%
1942-2014	E	The Black Panther or The King; one of the greatest footballers of all time	Eusébio	77%
1480-1521	M	Organised the expedition resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth	Ferdinand Magellan	64%
1922-2010	S	A Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature	José Saramago	54%
1920-1999	A	Queen of Fado	Amália	49%
1949-present	G	The Secretary-General-designate of the United Nations	António Guterres	49%
1888-1935	P	Poet, one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century	Fernando Pessoa	49%
1956-present	B	11th President of the European Commission (2004–14)	José Manuel Barroso	46%
c. 1467-1520	C	Navigator and explorer regarded as the discoverer of Brazil	Pedro Álvares Cabral	33%
c. 1451-1500	D	The first European explorer to reach the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic	Bartholomew Diaz	31%
1394-1460	H	The main initiator of the Age of Discoveries	Henry the Navigator	31%
1453- c. 1501	L	Explorer; a large peninsula in eastern Canada is named after him	João Fernandes Lavrador	28%
1148-1211	U	Daughter of the first king of Portugal, she was queen consort of León	Urraca	28%
1845-1900	Q	The greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style	Eça de Queirós	18%
1972-present	X	Former footballer and current head coach of the Mozambique national team	Abel Xavier	15%
c. 1465- c. 1536	V	Father of Portuguese drama and one of Western literature's greatest playwrights	Gil Vicente	15%
1938-present	K	Businesswoman and philanthropist, wife of current U.S. Secretary of State	Teresa Heinz Kerry	10%
1811-1896	F	19th-century businesswoman known for leadership in the cultivation of port wine	Antónia Adelaide Ferreira	5%
1501-1568	O	Pioneer of tropical medicine, pharmacognosy and ethnobotany	Garcia de Orta	5%
1502-1578	N	One of the greatest mathematicians of his time, invented the nonius	Pedro Nunes	5%
c. 1390-1471	Z	Explorer who established settlements and recognition of the Madeira Islands	João Gonçalves Zarco	3%
c. 1215-1277	J	He became Pope John XXI	Peter Juliani	3%
1850-1898	I	Explorer of Africa, geographer, and an officer of the Portuguese Navy	Roberto Ivens	0%
1082-1162	T	The reformer of religious life in Portugal and the first Portuguese saint	Theotonius	0%