Question: How long is the amount of railway lines that permit speeds greater than 120 km/h?
Answer: 900 km (559 mi)

Question: What are the two subway systems in Portugal?
Answer: Lisbon Metro and Metro Sul do Tejo in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area and Porto Metro in the Porto Metropolitan Area

Question: How long are each of the subway systems?
Answer: more than 35 km (22 mi)

Question: By what company have the Lisbon tram services been supplies by?
Answer: Companhia de Carris de Ferro de Lisboa (Carris)

Question: For how long has the Libon tram service existed?
Answer: over a century

Question: In what type of network are most scientific research studies conducted in Portugal?
Answer: R&D units belonging to public universities and state-managed autonomous research institutions

Question: What is one example of a state-managed autonomous research institution?
Answer: INETI – Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Tecnologia e Inovação

Question: By which ministry is authority granted for funding and managing Portugal's research system?
Answer: Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES)

Question: What are two of the large non-state run research institutions in Portugal?
Answer: Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência and the Champalimaud Foundation

Question: What is the Champalimaud Foundation?
Answer: neuroscience and oncology research centre

Question: What does the Champalimaud Foundation award every year?
Answer: one of the highest monetary prizes of any science prize in the world

Question: In what year was the Sciences Academy of Lisbon founded?
Answer: 1779

Question: What is the name of the largest European aquarium?
Answer: Lisbon Oceanarium

Question: What does the state agency Ciencia Viva promote?
Answer: scientific and technological culture among the Portuguese population

Question: What are some examples of notable organizations focused on scientific exhibitions?
Answer: Science Museum of the University of Coimbra, the National Museum of Natural History at the University of Lisbon, and the Visionarium

Question: What was responsible for creating thousands of scientific, technological, and knowledge-based businesses?
Answer: the emergence and growth of several science parks throughout the world

Question: What are some examples of the science parks being built in Portugal?
Answer: Taguspark (in Oeiras), the Coimbra iParque (in Coimbra), the biocant (in Cantanhede), the Madeira Tecnopolo (in Funchal)

Question: For what reason to companies locate in the Portuguese science parks?
Answer: take advantage of a variety of services ranging from financial and legal advice through to marketing and technological support

Question: What are the two most considerable sources of renewable energy in Portugal?
Answer: wind and river power

Question: Where was Moura Photovoltaic Power Station located?
Answer: Moura, in the south

Question: Where was the Agucadoura Wave Farm located?
Answer: Norte region

Question: By the end of 2006, what percentage of Portugal's energy production was from renewable sources?
Answer: 29%

Question: What is the name of Portugal's national energy transmission company?
Answer: Redes Energéticas Nacionais (REN)

Question: What does REN do?
Answer: uses sophisticated modeling to predict weather, especially wind patterns, and computer programs to calculate energy from the various renewable-energy plants

Question: Through what renewable resource had Portugal generated electricity before the solar/wind revolution?
Answer: hydropower plants on its rivers

Question: What is used to pump water uphill in Portugal?
Answer: wind-driven turbines

Question: How did the Portuguese government encourage rooftop solar panels?
Answer: setting a premium price

Question: What was the Portuguese population in 2011?
Answer: 10,562,178

Question: What percentage of the Portuguese population in 2011 was female?
Answer: 52%

Question: What percentage of the Portuguese population in 2011 was male?
Answer: 48%

Question: What is the dominant religion in Portugal?
Answer: Catholicism

Question: What were the Moors who converted to Catholicism known as?
Answer: Mouriscos

Question: In what group of people do the Portuguese have their origin?
Answer: Paleolithic peoples

Question: When did people first start arriving in the European continent?
Answer: 45,000 years ago

Question: What is the main population source of the Portuguese people?
Answer: Paleolithic

Question: What is the cornerstone of Portugal's national identity?
Answer: colonial history

Question: What were two of the last territories Portugal gave up?
Answer: Angola and Mozambique

Question: The vast majority of Brazilians have what ancestry in common?
Answer: Portuguese

Question: How many inhabitants did Portugal have by 2007?
Answer: 10,617,575

Question: What percentage of the Portuguese people are Roman Catholic?
Answer: 81.0%

Question: What other religious communities exist in Portugal?
Answer: Protestant, Latter-day Saint, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Eastern Orthodox Church, Jehovah's Witnesses, Baha'i, Buddhist, Jewish and Spiritist

Question: What percentage of the Portuguese people identify as non-religious?
Answer: 6.8%

Question: What percentage of the Portuguese population did not give an answer for their religion in the 2011 census?
Answer: 8.3%

Question: In what religion do many Portuguese holidays and festivals find their origin?
Answer: Christian

Question: In what centuries did the Roman Catholic Church play a role in the reconquest?
Answer: 13th and 14th

Question: What changed the role and importance of organized religion in Portugal?
Answer: formation of the First Portuguese Republic

Question: During what years did the formation of the First Portuguese Republic take place?
Answer: 1910–26

Question: On what date did the Battle of Ourique take place?
Answer: 25 July 1139

Question: Afonso heard Jesus promising what?
Answer: victories for the coming battles, as well as God's wish to act through Afonso

Question: Why did God want to act through Afonso?
Answer: in order to create an empire which would carry His name to unknown lands

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

Question: What type of language is Portuguese?
Answer: Romance

Question: Where did Portuguese originate?
Answer: Galicia and Northern Portugal

Question: What was the common name of the Galician and Portuguese people?
Answer: Galician-Portuguese

Question: From what language is Portuguese derived?
Answer: Latin

Question: By what group of people is Portuguese derived?
Answer: Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula

Question: Between what years did Portugal establish a colonial and commercial empire?
Answer: 1415 and 1999

Question: In how many continents is Portuguese spoken as a native language?
Answer: five

Question: What country has the largest number of native Portuguese speakers?
Answer: Brazil

Question: What is the adult literacy rate in Portugal?
Answer: 99 percent

Question: Portuguese primary school enrollment is close to what percent?
Answer: 100 percent

Question: What percentage of college-age citizens attend a higher education institution in Portugal?
Answer: Over 35%

Question: What percentage of college-age citizens attend a higher education institution in the United States?
Answer: 50%

Question: Since when have Portuguese universities existed?
Answer: 1290

Question: Where was the oldest Portuguese university established?
Answer: Lisbon

Question: Where did the oldest Portuguese university relocate to?
Answer: Coimbra

Question: What is the oldest engineering school of the Americas?
Answer: the Real Academia de Artilharia, Fortificação e Desenho of Rio de Janeiro

Question: What is the oldest medical college in Asia?
Answer: the Escola Médico-Cirúrgica of Goa

Question: When was the Bologna process adopted?
Answer: 2006

Question: What are most higher education student costs supported with?
Answer: public money