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Pero Vaz de Caminha, a Common card
Pero Vaz de Caminha was a Portuguese knight that accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral to India in 1500 as a secretary to the royal factory.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 55
- DEF
- 27
- Power
- 82
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,300
Power 82 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
Pero Vaz de Caminha quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Pero Vaz de Caminha card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He died in a riot in ______, India, at the end of that year.
Answer
Calicut. He died in a riot in Calicut, India, at the end of that year. From the Pero Vaz de Caminha article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Pero Vaz de Caminha was a Portuguese knight that accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral to India in ____ as a secretary to the royal factory.
Answer
1500s. Pero Vaz de Caminha was a Portuguese knight that accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral to India in 1500 as a secretary to the royal factory. From the Pero Vaz de Caminha article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
John Williams. John Williams 58 · Pero Vaz de Caminha 55 · Dennis Joel 50 · JEATH War Museum 47 ATK in WikiCards.
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.
- Caminha wrote the detailed official report of the April 1500 discovery of Brazil by Cabral's fleet.
- He died in a riot in Calicut, India, at the end of that year.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Pero Vaz de Caminha article was read about 4,300 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 55 and blocks with 27: each hit it takes is cut by 11 %.
How to get Pero Vaz de Caminha
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- Yaroslav DeminCommon · Society · ATK 55 DEF 27
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- The BorderlineCommon · Arts · ATK 51 DEF 31
- Walter SuttonCommon · Science · ATK 55 DEF 27
- Brian ConacherCommon · Society · ATK 56 DEF 26
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Pero Vaz de Caminha (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Francisco Aurélio de Figueiredo e Melo (1854–1916), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
