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Epic card · History
Baby boomers, an Epic card
Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the demographic cohort preceded by the Silent Generation and followed by Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 95
- DEF
- 91
- Power
- 186
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 930,000
Power 186 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Baby boomers quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Baby boomers card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The dates, the ______ context, and the cultural identifiers may vary by country.
Answer
demographic. The dates, the demographic context, and the cultural identifiers may vary by country. From the Baby boomers article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Pope John Paul II. Pope John Paul II 98 · Baby boomers 95 · Great Pyramid of Giza 90 · Maya Angelou 86 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.
- These years span the mid-20th-century baby boom that followed the end of World War II.
- The dates, the demographic context, and the cultural identifiers may vary by country.
- Most boomers are the parents of Generation X, Millennials and older Generation Z. In the West, boomers' childhoods in the 1950s and 1960s had significant reforms in education, both as part of the ideological confrontation that was the Cold War, and as a continuation of the interwar period.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Baby boomers article was read about 930,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 95 and blocks with 91: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Baby boomers
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Baby boomers (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Rich Farmbrough, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
