Question: Governmental and nongovernmental organizations and businesses are all settings which are fair game to do what in?
Answer: research

Question: What happened to Joseph I in 1758?
Answer: wounded in an attempted assassination

Question: Who was implicated in the attempted assassination of Joseph I?
Answer: The Távora family and the Duke of Aveiro

Question: Who was expelled from the country after the assassination attempt on Joseph I?
Answer: The Jesuits

Question: In what year did Joseph I make his minister the Count of Oeiras?
Answer: 1759

Question: What act finally broke the power of the aristocracy?
Answer: Sebastião de Melo prosecuted every person involved, even women and children

Question: In which year was the Count of Oeiras made the Marquis of Pambal?
Answer: 1770

Question: How long did the Marquis of Pombal rule Portugal?
Answer: until Joseph I's death in 1779

Question: What did Pombal's enlightenment promote at the expense of individual liberty?
Answer: autocracy

Question: Was the new Count of Oeiras opposed by anyone after the Tavora affair?
Answer: knew no opposition

Question: What was Pombal's "enlightenment" an apparatus for?
Answer: crushing opposition, suppressing criticism, and furthering colonial economic exploitation

Question: Under whose occupation did Portugal begin a slow decline?
Answer: Napoleon

Question: In what year did Brazil become independent from Portugal?
Answer: 1822

Question: To where did Prince Regent Joao VI of Portugal transfer his court?
Answer: Brazil

Question: What was the name of the pluricontinental state formed by Portugal and Brazil in 1815?
Answer: United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves

Question: How long did Portugal's decline last?
Answer: until the 20th century

Question: Portugese and British troops fought against the invasion of which country?
Answer: French

Question: Until when did the King of Portugal remain in Brazil?
Answer: until the Liberal Revolution of 1820

Question: Where did the Liberal Revolution of 1820 begin?
Answer: Porto

Question: By what year had the situation in Europe cool down enough so that Joao VI would have been able to safely return to Lisbon?
Answer: 1815

Question: What provoked the modernization and expansion of the Brazilian administrative, civic, economical, military, educational, and scientific apparatus?
Answer: the change in its status and the arrival of the Portuguese royal family

Question: When were railroad tracks being installed Portugese Africa?
Answer: before the turn of the 20th century

Question: When was the Conference of Berlin held?
Answer: 1884

Question: During what period were the Portugese Africa's cities founded or redeveloped?
Answer: Scramble for Africa

Question: Why were the Portugese Africa territories' borders formally established?
Answer: to protect the centuries-long Portuguese interests in the continent from rivalries enticed by the Scramble for Africa

Question: What new Portugese Africa's coastal towns were developed during the Scramble for Africa?
Answer: Beira, Moçâmedes, Lobito, João Belo, Nacala and Porto Amélia

Question: On what day were King Dom Carlos I and and his heir, Prince Royal Dom Luis Filipe, Duke of Braganza, murdered?
Answer: 1 February 1908

Question: Under the rule of King Dom Carlos I, on what two days was Portugal declared bankrupt?
Answer: on 14 June 1892, and again on 10 May 1902

Question: Who succeeded King Dom Carlos I as king?
Answer: Manuel II of Portugal

Question: On what day was King Manuel II overthrown?
Answer: 5 October 1910

Question: During the Portuguese First Republic, what creating a fertile ground for chaos and unrest?
Answer: Political instability and economic weaknesses

Question: Who led the Estado Novo?
Answer: António de Oliveira Salazar

Question: In what year was the Estado Novo established?
Answer: 1933

Question: How many European countries remained neutral throughout World War II?
Answer: five

Question: What action affirmed Portugal's status as a transcontinental nation?
Answer: relocation of mainland Portuguese citizens into the overseas provinces in Africa

Question: What are three international organizations that Portugal belongs to?
Answer: United Nations, the European Union, the Eurozone, OECD, NATO and the Community of Portuguese Language Countries

Question: What form of government does Portugal maintain?
Answer: unitary semi-presidential republican

Question: What is Portugal's Social Progress ranking?
Answer: 18th highest

Question: Which three Western European countries have a lower Social Progress ranking than Portugal?
Answer: France, Spain and Italy

Question: In 2001, Portugal was the first country in the world to do what?
Answer: decriminalized the usage of all common drugs

Question: What was Pelayos' plan?
Answer: to use the Cantabrian mountains as a place of refuge and protection from the invading Moors

Question: Against which group of people was Pelayos fighting?
Answer: Moors

Question: In which battle did Pelayos defeat the Moors?
Answer: Battle of Covadonga

Question: In which year was Pelayos proclaimed king?
Answer: 722 AD

Question: What was the war of Christian reconquest, started by Pelayos, known as in Portugese?
Answer: Reconquista Cristã

Question: Why was the Kingdom of Asturias divided?
Answer: dynastic divisions of inheritance among the kings offspring

Question: Who annexed the County of Portugal into the Kingdom of Asturias?
Answer: King Alfonso III

Question: In which year was Vimara Peres knighted?
Answer: 868 AD

Question: What was Vimara knighted as?
Answer: First Count of Portus Cale

Question: What three names did Portugal become known as after Vimara Peres was knighted?
Answer: Portucale, Portugale, and simultaneously Portugália

Question: During the internecine struggles, what did the the people of Country of Portugal struggle with?
Answer: maintain the autonomy of Galicia with its distinct language and culture (Galician-Portuguese) from the Leonese culture

Question: The County of Portugal separated from the Kingdom of Galicia to establish what?
Answer: the Kingdom of Portugal

Question: Portugese diverged from which language? 
Answer: Galician

Question: What is the Castilian Lanugage known as?
Answer: Spanish

Question: By which language was the Astur-Leonese replaced?
Answer: Castilian (Spanish Language)

Question: Who was de Melo's second marriage to?
Answer: the daughter of the Austrian Field Marshal Leopold Josef, Count von Daun

Question: Who was the 1st Marquis of Pombal?
Answer: Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo

Question: What title did Archduchess Maria Anne Josefa hold?
Answer: Queen consort of Portugal

Question: Who arranged the widow de Melo's second marriage?
Answer: Queen consort of Portugal

Question: Who was not pleased by de Melo's second marriage?
Answer: King John V of Portugal

Question: What type of natural disaster was the city center of Lisbon designed to resist?
Answer: earthquakes

Question: How were earthquakes simulated on the architectural models?
Answer: marching troops around the models

Question: Did Lisbon suffer any epidemics from the calamity?
Answer: Lisbon suffered no epidemics

Question: What are some of Lisbon's tourist attractions?
Answer: The buildings and big squares of the Pombaline City Centre

Question: How did de Melo contribute to the study of seismology?
Answer: by designing an inquiry that was sent to every parish in the country

Question: What is the official name of Portugal?
Answer: Portuguese Republic

Question: Where is Portugal located?
Answer: Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe

Question: Which ocean does Portugal border?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean

Question: How long is the Portugal-Spain border?
Answer: 1,214 km (754 mi)

Question: What two autonomous regions have their own governments in Portugal?
Answer: Azores and Madeira

Question: What other country does Portugal border?
Answer: Spain