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Alan Lomax, an Uncommon card
Alan Lomax was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music during the 20th century.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 61
- Power
- 142
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 100,000
Power 142 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Alan Lomax quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Alan Lomax card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He collected material first with his ______, folklorist and collector John Lomax, and later, alone and with others.
Answer
father. He collected material first with his father, folklorist and collector John Lomax, and later, alone and with others. From the Alan Lomax article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Alan Lomax. Alan Lomax 81 · Barbed wire 76 · Drywall 73 · Carom billiards 68 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.
- He was a musician, folklorist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, filmmaker and son of folklorist John Lomax.
- Lomax produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the U.S. and in England which played an important role in preserving folk music traditions in both countries and helped start both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s, 1950s, and especially the early 1960s.
- He collected material first with his father, folklorist and collector John Lomax, and later, alone and with others.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alan Lomax article was read about 100,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Alan Lomax
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alan Lomax (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
