Question: What is Laurisilva?
Answer: a unique type of subtropical rainforest

Question: What are some examples of  mammalian fauna found in Laurisilva forests?
Answer: fox, badger, iberian lynx, iberian wolf, wild goat (Capra pyrenaica), wild cat (Felis silvestris), hare, weasel, polecat, chameleon, mongoose, civet, brown bear

Question: What type of animal crosses between Europe and Africa during the Autumn?
Answer: migratory birds

Question: How many freshwater fish species can be found in Portugal?
Answer: more than 100

Question: In Portugal, where can you find the giant European catfish?
Answer: in the Tagus International Natural Park

Question: Why are some species becoming endangered in Portugal?
Answer: because of habitat loss, pollution and drought

Question: What type of glowing species can be found on some beaches in Portugal?
Answer: plankton

Question: For how many years is the Portugal president elected?
Answer: five

Question: Who is the current president of Portugal?
Answer: Aníbal Cavaco Silva

Question: How many deputies make up the Assembly of the Republic?
Answer: 230

Question: For how long of a term are deputies elected?
Answer: four-year

Question: How many members sit on the Constitutional Court?
Answer: thirteen

Question: What two political parties dominate Portugal's government?
Answer: Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party

Question: At what three levels does the Portugal government operate?
Answer: national-, regional- and local-levels

Question: What other political groups exist other than the two dominant ones?
Answer: Unitary Democratic Coalition (Portuguese Communist Party and Ecologist Party "The Greens"), the Left Bloc and the Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party

Question: What percentage of the vote do the non-dominant parties get?
Answer: 5 and 15%

Question: Who is the Head of State of Portugal?
Answer: President of the Republic

Question: For how many years does each term of the President of the Republic last?
Answer: five

Question: By what means is the President of the Republic elected?
Answer: by direct, universal suffrage

Question: Who has the power to appoint and dismiss the Prime Minister?
Answer: President of the Republic

Question: What group acts as the presidential cabinet?
Answer: The Council of Ministers

Question: What process is required of each government's policies?
Answer: define the broad outline of its policies in a programme, and present it to the Assembly for a mandatory period of debate

Question: What is needed to reject a cabinet's policy?
Answer: an absolute majority of deputies

Question: Portuguese law continues to be a major influence for what?
Answer: former colonies and territories

Question: What is the Policia de Seguranca Publica - PSP (Public Security Police)?
Answer: a civilian police force who work in urban areas

Question: What is the Policia Judiciaria - PJ (Judicial Police)?
Answer: a highly specialized criminal investigation police

Question: Which entity oversees the Judicial Police?
Answer: the Public Ministry.

Question: In which year did Portugal decriminalize drug possession?
Answer: 2001

Question: How much of a drug is legal to possess?
Answer: 10 days worth of personal use

Question: What option is allowed to those caught with small amounts of drugs?
Answer: go to a rehab facility

Question: By 2009, by how much had the rate of HIV infection decreased?
Answer: 50 percent

Question: How many municipalities is Portugal divided into?
Answer: 308

Question: How many civil parishes are the Portuguese municipalities divided into?
Answer: 3,092

Question: How many districts is the continental Portugal divided into?
Answer: 18

Question: How many branches make up the Portuguese armed forces?
Answer: three

Question: What are the branches of the Portuguese armed forces?
Answer: Navy, Army and Air Force

Question: What is the primary purpose of the Portuguese armed forces?
Answer: primarily as a self-defense force whose mission is to protect the territorial integrity of the country and provide humanitarian assistance and security

Question: How many women were in the Portuguese armed forces in 2008?
Answer: 7,500

Question: How much money was spent on the Portuguese armed forced in 2009?
Answer: $5.2 billion, representing 2.1 percent of GDP

Question: What is the number of personnel in the army?
Answer: 21,000

Question: With what is the infantry brigade mainly equipped with?
Answer: Pandur II APC

Question: What is the mechanized brigade mainly equipped with?
Answer: Leopard 2 A6 tanks and M113 APC

Question: What does the Rapid Reaction Brigade consist of?
Answer: paratroopers, commandos and rangers

Question: How many personnel does the Navy have?
Answer: 10,700

Question: In what two major conflicts did Portugal engage in during the 20th century?
Answer: World War I and the Portuguese Colonial War

Question: During which years was the Portuguese Colonial War fought?
Answer: 1961–1974

Question: In what countries have the Portuguese Armed Forces participated in peacekeeping missions?
Answer: East Timor, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq (Nasiriyah) and Lebanon

Question: What are two examples of independent Portuguese unilateral military operations conducted abroad?
Answer: Angola in 1992 and in Guinea-Bissau in 1998

Question: Who headed the government after the bailout was announced?
Answer: Pedro Passos Coelho

Question: What was the purpose of the Portuguese bailout?
Answer: improve the State's financial situation

Question: How was the Portuguese bailout implemented?
Answer: tax hikes, a freeze of civil service-related lower-wages and cuts of higher-wages by 14.3%, on top of the government's spending cuts

Question: Between 2010 and 2012, by what percentage were the wages of public servants cut?
Answer: 20%

Question: In which year did the Carnation Revolution take place?
Answer: 1974

Question: Between 1974 and 2010, how did the Portuguese government encourage over-expenditure and investment bubbles?
Answer: unclear Public–private partnerships and funding of numerous ineffective and unnecessary external consultancy and advisory of committees and firms

Question: By whom was a report published in 2011 that demonstrated the Portuguese government encouraged over-expenditure and investment bubbles?
Answer: Diário de Notícias

Question: In what two years was there a financial crisis?
Answer: 2007–08

Question: Which two Portuguese banks had been accumulating losses for years?
Answer: Banco Português de Negócios (BPN) and Banco Privado Português (BPP)

Question: What caused BPN and BPP to accumulate losses?
Answer: bad investments, embezzlement and accounting fraud

Question: Why was the case of BPN more serious?
Answer: its size, market share, and the political implications

Question: On what charge was BPN's CEO arrested?
Answer: fraud

Question: What currency does Portugal use?
Answer: the euro (€)

Question: What currency did the euro replace in Portugal?
Answer: Portuguese Escudo

Question: What is the name of Portugal's central bank?
Answer: Banco de Portugal

Question: In what two areas are most Portuguese industries, businesses, and financial institutions concentrated?
Answer: Lisbon and Porto metropolitan areas

Question: According to World Travel Awards, for what activity is Portugal known as Europe's leading destination?
Answer: Golf

Question: What period followed the Carnation Revolution?
Answer: PREC period

Question: Since the 90's, how has Portugal's economic development model been changing?
Answer: changing to a system that is focused on exports, private investment and the development of the high-tech sector

Question: What are the more traditional industries that have existed in Portugal?
Answer: textiles, clothing, footwear and cork

Question: What is Portugal the world's leading producer of?
Answer: cork