Question: Over what age are higher education applicants considered mature?
Answer: over 23 years old

Question: What is the Ministry of Health responsible for?
Answer: developing health policy as well as managing the SNS

Question: How many regional health administrations exist in Portugal?
Answer: Five

Question: What are the regional health administrations in charge of?
Answer: implementing the national health policy objectives, developing guidelines and protocols and supervising health care delivery

Question: What do most Portuguese people die from?
Answer: noncommunicable diseases

Question: What are the two main components of cardiovascular disease?
Answer: ischaemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease

Question: What is the biggest killer in Portugal?
Answer: cerebrovascular disease

Question: What percentage of Portuguese people die less often from cancer than in the Eur-A?
Answer: 12%

Question: Who is cancer more common among in Portugal?
Answer: children as well as among women younger than 44 years

Question: What survey results complement on data on health status?
Answer: self-reporting at the household level

Question: What number of Portuguese adults rated their health as good or very good?
Answer: one third

Question: Portugal modernized its public cultural facilities during what two decades?
Answer: 1990s and 2000s

Question: In what year was the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation established?
Answer: 1956

Question: Where was the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation established?
Answer: Lisbon

Question: What are some examples of Portugal's public cultural facilities?
Answer: Belém Cultural Centre in Lisbon, Serralves Foundation and the Casa da Música

Question: How many UNESCO World Heritage Sites is Portugal home to?
Answer: fifteen

Question: What is the Manueline style also known as?
Answer: Portuguese late Gothic

Question: What is the Manueline style?
Answer: a sumptuous, composite Portuguese style of architectural ornamentation of the first decades of the 16th century

Question: What is Soft Portuguese style?
Answer: A 20th-century interpretation of traditional architecture

Question: Who are some of the most renowned architects to come from Portugal?
Answer: Eduardo Souto de Moura, Álvaro Siza Vieira (both Pritzker Prize winners) and Gonçalo Byrne

Question: For what is Tomas Taveira particularly noteworthy for in Portugal?
Answer: stadium design

Question: In which period was cinema born?
Answer: late 19th century

Question: Who are some examples of Portuguese film directors?
Answer: Arthur Duarte, António Lopes Ribeiro, António Reis, Pedro Costa, Manoel de Oliveira, João César Monteiro, António-Pedro Vasconcelos, Fernando Lopes

Question: Who are some noted Portuguese actors?
Answer: Joaquim de Almeida, Daniela Ruah, Maria de Medeiros, Diogo Infante, Soraia Chaves, Ribeirinho, Lúcia Moniz, and Diogo Morgado

Question: Who was Luís de Camões?
Answer: Adventurer and poet

Question: What epic poem did Luís de Camões write?
Answer: "Os Lusíadas" (The Lusiads)

Question: What was Luís de Camões main influence?
Answer: Virgil's Aeneid

Question: What styles are modern Portuguese poetry rooted in?
Answer: neoclassic and contemporary styles

Question: Who are some modern Portuguese authors?
Answer: Almeida Garrett, Camilo Castelo Branco, Eça de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, António Lobo Antunes and Miguel Torga

Question: What is dry cod known as in Portuguese?
Answer: bacalhau

Question: Other than bacalhau, what are two other popular fish recipes in Portugal?
Answer: grilled sardines and caldeirada

Question: What is caldeirada?
Answer: a potato-based stew that can be made from several types of fish

Question: What meats are often used in Portuguese recipes?
Answer: beef, pork, lamb, or chicken

Question: What are two popular Northern Portugal dishes?
Answer: arroz de sarrabulho (rice stewed in pigs blood) or the arroz de cabidela (rice and chickens meat stewed in chickens blood)

Question: What are three examples of fast food dishes in Portugal?
Answer: Francesinha (Frenchie) from Porto, and bifanas (grilled pork) or prego (grilled beef) sandwiches

Question: Where does the Portuguese art of pastry have its origins?
Answer: in the many medieval Catholic monasteries spread widely across the country

Question: What are the main ingredients used to make pastries in the monasteries?
Answer: almonds, flour, eggs and some liquor

Question: What are two examples of Portuguese pastries?
Answer: pastéis de Belém (or pastéis de nata) originally from Lisbon, and ovos moles from Aveiro

Question: Since when have Portuguese wines garnished international recognition?
Answer: since the times of the Romans

Question: With which Roman God was Portugal associated with?
Answer: Bacchus

Question: What are some of the best Portuguese wines?
Answer: Vinho Verde, Vinho Alvarinho, Vinho do Douro, Vinho do Alentejo, Vinho do Dão, Vinho da Bairrada and the sweet: Port Wine, Madeira Wine

Question: Which two Portuguese wines are especially enjoyed around the world?
Answer: Port and Madeira

Question: What are a couple examples of Summer music festivals held in Portugal?
Answer: Festival Sudoeste in Zambujeira do Mar, Festival de Paredes de Coura in Paredes de Coura, Festival Vilar de Mouros near Caminha,

Question: What are a couple examples of non-Summer music festivals in Portugal?
Answer: Flowfest or Hip Hop Porto

Question: What is the Boom Festival?
Answer: one of the largest international Goa trance festivals takes place in central Portugal every two years

Question: What international awards have been won by the Boom Festival?
Answer: European Festival Award 2010 – Green'n'Clean Festival of the Year and the Greener Festival Award Outstanding 2008 and 2010

Question: In which year did Portugal hold the MTV Europe Music Awards?
Answer: 2005

Question: What are some examples of classical pianists from Portugal?
Answer: Artur Pizarro, Maria João Pires, Sequeira Costa

Question: What are some examples of classical violinists from Portugal?
Answer: Carlos Damas, Gerardo Ribeiro

Question: Who are some notable musical composers from Portugal?
Answer: José Vianna da Motta, Carlos Seixas, João Domingos Bomtempo, João de Sousa Carvalho, Luís de Freitas Branco and his student Joly Braga Santos

Question: Who are some contemporary composers from Portugal?
Answer: Nuno Malo and Miguel d'Oliveira

Question: In which century did Portugal see the arrival of Modernism?
Answer: 20th century

Question: By what group was Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso most heavily influenced by?
Answer: French painters, particularly by the Delaunays

Question: What is one of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso's best known works?
Answer: Canção Popular a Russa e o Fígaro

Question: Who are some of the most prominent modern visual artists in Portugal?
Answer: Vieira da Silva, Júlio Pomar, Helena Almeida, Joana Vasconcelos, Julião Sarmento and Paula Rego

Question: What is the most popular sport in Portugal?
Answer: Football

Question: What is still a major symbol of Portuguese football history?
Answer: Eusébio

Question: Who are two examples of the top football players born in Portugal?
Answer: Luís Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo

Question: What award did both Luís Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo win?
Answer: FIFA World Player of the Year

Question: Who are some of the most renowned football managers in Portugal?
Answer: José Mourinho, André Villas-Boas, Fernando Santos, Carlos Queiroz and Manuel José

Question: What are the three largest sports clubs by popularity in Portugal?
Answer: SL Benfica, FC Porto, and Sporting CP

Question: What are the three largest sports club by popularity in Portugal known as?
Answer: "os três grandes" ("the big three")

Question: How many titles in the European UEFA club competitions have "the big three" won?
Answer: eight