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Ambroise Thomas, a Common card
Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas was a French composer and teacher, best known for his operas Mignon and Hamlet.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 79
- Power
- 148
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,900
Power 148 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Ambroise Thomas quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ambroise Thomas card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He pursued a career as a ______ of operas, completing his first opera, La double échelle, in 1837.
Answer
composer. He pursued a career as a composer of operas, completing his first opera, La double échelle, in 1837. From the Ambroise Thomas article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Sholem Asch. Sholem Asch 14,000 · Ambroise Thomas 9,900 · Malaysian art 7,300 · Francis Leggatt Chantrey 5,500 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.
- Born into a musical family, Thomas was a student at the Conservatoire de Paris, winning France's top music prize, the Prix de Rome.
- He pursued a career as a composer of operas, completing his first opera, La double échelle, in 1837.
- He wrote twenty further operas over the next decades, mostly comic, but he also treated more serious subjects, finding considerable success with audiences in France and abroad.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ambroise Thomas article was read about 9,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 79: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ambroise Thomas (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Wilhelm Benque / Adam Cuerden, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
