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Uncommon card · Arts
Ben Jonson, an Uncommon card
Benjamin Jonson was an English playwright, poet and actor.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 81
- Power
- 163
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 160,000
Power 163 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Ben Jonson quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ben Jonson card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Jonson's artistry exerted a ______ influence on English poetry and stage comedy.
Answer
lasting. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy. From the Ben Jonson article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Critique of Pure Reason. Critique of Pure Reason 87 · Ben Jonson 82 · Hospital 79 · Berry 76 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.
- Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy.
- He popularised the comedy of humours, he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour, Volpone, or The Fox, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry.
- He is regarded as "the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I." Jonson was a classically educated, well-read and cultured man of the English Renaissance with an appetite for controversy.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ben Jonson article was read about 160,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 81: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Ben Jonson
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Ben Jonson in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Primo LeviUncommon · History · ATK 81 DEF 82
- African PygmiesUncommon · Science · ATK 78 DEF 85
- ArgonauticaUncommon · Arts · ATK 84 DEF 79
- BerryUncommon · Society · ATK 76 DEF 87
- Critique of Pure ReasonUncommon · Arts · ATK 87 DEF 76
- A cappellaUncommon · Arts · ATK 80 DEF 83
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ben Jonson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : George Vertue / After Gerard van Honthorst, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
