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The Man Who Laughs, a Common card
The Man Who Laughs is an opera in two acts with a prologue by Canadian composer Airat Ichmouratov, to a libretto in French by poet Bertrand Laverdure, adapted from the eponymous 1869 novel by Victor Hugo.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 46
- DEF
- 19
- Power
- 65
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,100
Power 65 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 10 % of WikiCards cards.
The Man Who Laughs quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the The Man Who Laughs card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The opera is set in ______ in two parts.
Answer
England. The opera is set in England in two parts. From the The Man Who Laughs article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The Man Who Laughs is an opera in two acts with a prologue by Canadian composer Airat Ichmouratov, to a libretto in French by poet Bertrand Laverdure, adapted from the eponymous ____ novel by Victor Hugo.
Answer
1860s. The Man Who Laughs is an opera in two acts with a prologue by Canadian composer Airat Ichmouratov, to a libretto in French by poet Bertrand Laverdure, adapted from the eponymous 1869 novel by Victor Hugo. From the The Man Who Laughs 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.
- Commissioned by Festival Classica, it was premiered in concert version, conducted by Airat Ichmouratov on May 31, 2023, in Montreal, Canada.
- The opera is set in England in two parts.
- First in 1690, in the prologue, when the poet and showman Ursus meets ten-year-old Gwynplaine, who is disfigured, and one-year-old Dea, who is blind.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The The Man Who Laughs article was read about 1,100 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 46 and blocks with 19: each hit it takes is cut by 8 %.
How to get The Man Who Laughs
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, The Man Who Laughs (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Georges Rochegrosse, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
