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Uncommon card · Nature
The Carnival of the Animals, an Uncommon card
The Carnival of the Animals is a humorous musical suite of 14 movements, including "The Swan", by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 90
- Power
- 163
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Ranked #1,664 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The Carnival of the Animals quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the The Carnival of the Animals card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The suite was ______ in 1922, the year after his death.
Answer
published. The suite was published in 1922, the year after his death. From the The Carnival of the Animals article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
English Channel. English Channel 340,000 · The Carnival of the Animals 150,000 · Common carp 110,000 · Australopithecus africanus 84,000 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.
- About 25 minutes long, it was written for private performance by two pianos and chamber ensemble, Saint-Saëns prohibited public performance of the work during his lifetime, feeling that its frivolity would damage his standing as a serious composer.
- The suite was published in 1922, the year after his death.
- A public performance that year was greeted with enthusiasm, and it has remained among his most popular works.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The The Carnival of the Animals article was read about 150,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 90: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get The Carnival of the Animals
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, The Carnival of the Animals (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Charles Reutlinger (1816–81), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
