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Marcos Pontes, a Common card
Marcos Cesar Pontes is a Brazilian Air Force pilot, engineer, AEB astronaut, politician and author.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 135
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 12,000
Ranked #2,212 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Marcos Pontes quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Marcos Pontes card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
He became the first South American and the first Lusophone to go into space when he docked onto the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-8 on 30 March ____.
Answer
2000s. He became the first South American and the first Lusophone to go into space when he docked onto the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-8 on 30 March 2006. From the Marcos Pontes article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
1924 United States presidential election in Wisconsin. 1924 United States presidential election in Wisconsin 80 · Almogavars 75 · Marcos Pontes 72 · Irish immigration to Puerto Rico 69 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Almogavars. Almogavars 28,000 · Bolivian War of Independence 19,000 · Marcos Pontes 12,000 · Irish immigration to Puerto Rico 9,000 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.
- He became the first South American and the first Lusophone to go into space when he docked onto the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-8 on 30 March 2006.
- He is the only Brazilian to have completed the NASA astronaut training program, although he switched to training in Russia after NASA's Space Shuttle program encountered problems.
- After Jair Bolsonaro's election as President of Brazil in 2018, Pontes was officially nominated to be Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, a post which he accepted days later and assumed when Bolsonaro's government began.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Marcos Pontes article was read about 12,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Marcos Pontes
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Marcos Pontes (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Agência Senado from Brasilia, Brazil, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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