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Caetano Veloso, an Uncommon card
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, musician, writer, and political activist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 69
- Power
- 143
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 79,000
Power 143 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Caetano Veloso quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Caetano Veloso card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
In the late ____s, he helped develop Tropicália, a Brazilian musical movement that combined Brazilian popular music with rock and roll and avant-garde influences.
Answer
1960s. In the late 1960s, he helped develop Tropicália, a Brazilian musical movement that combined Brazilian popular music with rock and roll and avant-garde influences. From the Caetano Veloso article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Alfred Wegener. Alfred Wegener 110,000 · Caetano Veloso 79,000 · Frédéric Bastiat 58,000 · Brumadinho dam disaster 45,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In the late 1960s, he helped develop Tropicália, a Brazilian musical movement that combined Brazilian popular music with rock and roll and avant-garde influences.
- Along with Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Tom Zé, and Os Mutantes, he participated in the 1968 collaborative album Tropicália: ou Panis et Circencis, which became a musical manifesto of the movement.
- Veloso's anti-authoritarian political stance brought him into conflict with the Brazilian military dictatorship, which censored and banned some of his songs.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Caetano Veloso article was read about 79,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 69: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Caetano Veloso
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Caetano Veloso (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Secretaría de Cultura Ciudad de México from México, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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