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Pedro Mascarenhas, a Common card
D. Pedro Mascarenhas was a Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 48
- DEF
- 19
- Power
- 67
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,700
Power 67 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 10 % of WikiCards cards.
Pedro Mascarenhas quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Pedro Mascarenhas card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was the first European to discover the ______ of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in 1512.
Answer
island. He was the first European to discover the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in 1512. From the Pedro Mascarenhas article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
In ____ explorer Diogo Rodrigues named the islands of Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues the Mascarene Islands, after the name of Mascarenhas.
Answer
1520s. In 1528 explorer Diogo Rodrigues named the islands of Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues the Mascarene Islands, after the name of Mascarenhas. From the Pedro Mascarenhas 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.
- He was the first European to discover the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in 1512.
- He also encountered the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius in 1512, although he may not have been the first Portuguese explorer to do so, earlier expeditions by Diogo Dias and Afonso de Albuquerque along with Diogo Fernandes Pereira may have encountered the islands.
- In 1528 explorer Diogo Rodrigues named the islands of Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues the Mascarene Islands, after the name of Mascarenhas.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Pedro Mascarenhas article was read about 6,700 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 48 and blocks with 19: each hit it takes is cut by 8 %.
How to get Pedro Mascarenhas
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Pedro Mascarenhas (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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