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Uncommon card · Arts
Bill Monroe, an Uncommon card
William Smith Monroe was an American mandolinist, singer, and songwriter who created the bluegrass music genre.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 124
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 124 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Bill Monroe quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Bill Monroe card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
For this reason, he is often called the "Father of ______".
Answer
Bluegrass. For this reason, he is often called the "Father of Bluegrass". From the Bill Monroe article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Parallel Lives. Parallel Lives 74 · Bill Monroe 70 · Mother Goose 65 · Mildred Burke 62 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.
- For this reason, he is often called the "Father of Bluegrass".
- The genre takes its name from his band, the Blue Grass Boys, who named their group for the bluegrass of Monroe's home state of Kentucky.
- He described the genre as "Scottish bagpipes and ole-time fiddlin'.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Bill Monroe article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 54: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Bill Monroe
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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- Mildred BurkeUncommon · Society · ATK 62 DEF 62
- BulldozerUncommon · Science · ATK 67 DEF 57
- CanyonUncommon · Nature · ATK 66 DEF 58
- Compact spaceUncommon · Science · ATK 75 DEF 49
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Bill Monroe (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : bunky's pickle, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
