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Rare card · History
Chet Baker, a Rare card
Chesney Henry Baker Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 87
- Power
- 162
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 450,000
Power 162 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Chet Baker quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Chet Baker card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is known for major ______ in cool jazz that led him to be nicknamed the "Prince of Cool".
Answer
innovations. He is known for major innovations in cool jazz that led him to be nicknamed the "Prince of Cool". From the Chet Baker article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Baker earned much attention and critical praise through the ____s, particularly for albums featuring his vocals: Chet Baker Sings and It Could Happen to You.
Answer
1950s. Baker earned much attention and critical praise through the 1950s, particularly for albums featuring his vocals: Chet Baker Sings and It Could Happen to You. From the Chet Baker article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Cecil Rhodes. Cecil Rhodes 86 · Jeffrey Archer 83 · Michel de Montaigne 78 · Chet Baker 75 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 is known for major innovations in cool jazz that led him to be nicknamed the "Prince of Cool".
- Baker earned much attention and critical praise through the 1950s, particularly for albums featuring his vocals: Chet Baker Sings and It Could Happen to You.
- Jazz historian Dave Gelly described the promise of Baker's early career as "James Dean, Sinatra, and Bix, rolled into one".
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Chet Baker article was read about 450,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 87: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
How to get Chet Baker
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Chet Baker (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Distributed by Joe Glaser 's Associated Booking Corporation. Photographer uncredited and u, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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