Portugal: From Kings to Carnations

What this quiz asks

• Who became Portugal's first king, recognised by the kingdom of León in the Treaty of Zamora of 1143?
• Which city, with a castle linked by tradition to Afonso Henriques, is called the 'cradle of the nation'?
• Which 1385 battle against Castile secured Portugal's independence and the throne for King João I?
• King José I's chief minister led the rebuilding of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake. By what title is he best known?
• Did the great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 strike on a major religious holiday?
• From 1580 to 1640, Portugal shared its king with Spain.
• Before leading the Estado Novo, António de Oliveira Salazar was a university professor of which subject at Coimbra?
• The Portuguese Republic was proclaimed on 5 October 1910 from the balcony of which Lisbon building?
• Fleeing Napoleon's invading army, the Portuguese royal court settled in Rio de Janeiro in 1808.
• Select ALL of these territories where Portugal fought its Colonial War between 1961 and 1974.
• The ornate late-Gothic style of the Jerónimos Monastery, full of carved ropes and sea motifs, is named after which king?
• Which king founded Portugal's first university, in 1290?
• In 1147 Afonso Henriques captured Lisbon from the Moors with the help of whom?
• King Sebastião vanished at the Battle of Alcácer Quibir, in Morocco, in 1578. How old was he?
• Which king paid for the vast palace-convent of Mafra, begun in 1717, with gold from Brazil?
• Britain's Ultimatum of 1890 forced Portugal to drop its 'Pink Map' plan to link which two colonies across Africa?
• Select ALL of these songs that were broadcast on the radio as signals for the military coup of 25 April 1974.
• On 25 April 1974, Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano took refuge in which Lisbon building before surrendering?
• Who became the first elected President of the Portuguese Republic, in 1911?
• Order these events in 20th-century Portugal from earliest to latest.