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Cinema of Hong Kong, an Uncommon card
The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese-language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 68
- Power
- 152
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 62,000
Power 152 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Cinema of Hong Kong quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cinema of Hong Kong card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It also had the third-largest film industry in the world during the 1980s and 1990s, behind ______ and Bollywood.
Answer
Hollywood. It also had the third-largest film industry in the world during the 1980s and 1990s, behind Hollywood and Bollywood. From the Cinema of Hong Kong article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Cinema of Hong Kong. Cinema of Hong Kong 84 · Aachen Cathedral 78 · Raymond Loewy 73 · Book of Lamentations 69 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Aachen Cathedral. Aachen Cathedral 110,000 · Book of Lamentations 84,000 · Cinema of Hong Kong 62,000 · Skillet discography 38,000 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.
- As a former Crown colony, Hong Kong had a greater degree of artistic freedom than mainland China and Taiwan, and developed into a filmmaking hub for the Chinese-speaking world.
- Hong Kong became the leading film exporter in East Asia in the 1960s, with its film output surpassing Hollywood, and remained the second-largest exporter from the 1970s through the 1990s.
- It also had the third-largest film industry in the world during the 1980s and 1990s, behind Hollywood and Bollywood.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cinema of Hong Kong article was read about 62,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 68: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get Cinema of Hong Kong
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, Cinema of Hong Kong (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Avenue_of_Stars_Statue.jpg : WiNG derivative work: SilkTork ( talk ), CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
