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La Violencia, an Uncommon card
La Violencia was a ten-year wave of civil conflict and unrest in Colombia from 1948 to 1958, between the Colombian Conservative Party and the Colombian Liberal Party, mainly fought in the countryside.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 57
- Power
- 128
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 100,000
Power 128 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
La Violencia quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the La Violencia card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
His murder provoked the ______ rioting, which lasted ten hours and resulted in around 5,000 casualties.
Answer
Bogotazo. His murder provoked the Bogotazo rioting, which lasted ten hours and resulted in around 5,000 casualties. From the La Violencia article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
An alternative historiography proposes the Conservative Party's return to power following the election of ____ to be the cause.
Answer
1940s. An alternative historiography proposes the Conservative Party's return to power following the election of 1946 to be the cause. From the La Violencia article on Wikipedia.
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.
- La Violencia is considered to have begun with the assassination on 9 April 1948 of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, a Liberal Party presidential candidate and frontrunner for the 1949 November election.
- His murder provoked the Bogotazo rioting, which lasted ten hours and resulted in around 5,000 casualties.
- An alternative historiography proposes the Conservative Party's return to power following the election of 1946 to be the cause.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The La Violencia article was read about 100,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 57: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get La Violencia
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, La Violencia (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Daniel Pradilla Holguin, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
