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Edward Lear, an Uncommon card
Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised but which term he never used.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 72
- Power
- 144
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 77,000
Power 144 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Edward Lear quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Edward Lear card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He also composed and ______ twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry.
Answer
published. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry. From the Edward Lear article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Hybrid vehicle. Hybrid vehicle 84 · Yevgeny Zamyatin 77 · Edward Lear 72 · Iron(III) oxide 66 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.
- His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to make illustrations of birds and animals, making coloured drawings during his journeys and as a minor illustrator of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poems.
- As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes and alphabets.
- He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Edward Lear article was read about 77,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 72: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
How to get Edward Lear
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Edward Lear (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
