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Dick Dale, an Uncommon card
Richard Anthony Monsour, known professionally as Dick Dale, was an American rock guitarist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 73
- Power
- 148
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Power 148 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Dick Dale quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Dick Dale card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Dale was one of the most ______ guitarists of all time and especially of the early 1960s.
Answer
influential. Dale was one of the most influential guitarists of all time and especially of the early 1960s. From the Dick Dale article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Grand Canal. Grand Canal 80 · Dick Dale 75 · Betsy Ross 71 · Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau 68 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Baroque music. Baroque music 210,000 · Dick Dale 150,000 · Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau 14,000 · Valentino Khan 11,000 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.
- He was a pioneer of surf music, drawing on Middle Eastern music scales and experimenting with reverb.
- Dale was known as "The King of the Surf Guitar," which was also the title of his second studio album.
- Dale was one of the most influential guitarists of all time and especially of the early 1960s.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Dick Dale article was read about 150,000 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 73: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
How to get Dick Dale
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, Dick Dale (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Eric Frommer from Everett, WA, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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