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Cyrano de Bergerac, a Rare card
Cyrano de Bergerac is a French play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 70
- Power
- 150
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 300,000
Power 150 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Cyrano de Bergerac quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cyrano de Bergerac card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Cyrano's large nose is based on reality but in ______ of the play is usually exaggerated.
Answer
performance. Cyrano's large nose is based on reality but in performance of the play is usually exaggerated. From the Cyrano de Bergerac article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Cyrano de Bergerac is a French play written in ____ by Edmond Rostand.
Answer
1890s. Cyrano de Bergerac is a French play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. From the Cyrano de Bergerac article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
The Art of War. The Art of War 490,000 · Cyrano de Bergerac 300,000 · Georges Seurat 240,000 · Lyre 180,000 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.
- The play includes elements of the life of the 17th-century novelist and playwright Cyrano de Bergerac, along with elements of invention and myth.
- Cyrano's large nose is based on reality but in performance of the play is usually exaggerated.
- The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of twelve syllables per line, very close to the classical alexandrine form, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cyrano de Bergerac article was read about 300,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 70: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Cyrano de Bergerac
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cyrano de Bergerac (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : ZH, pinxit (Zacharie Heince, 1611-1669) LAH, delin. et Sculpsit, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
