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Edward R. Murrow, a Rare card
Edward Roscoe Murrow was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 79
- Power
- 159
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 240,000
Power 159 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Edward R. Murrow quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Edward R. Murrow card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
During the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war ______ who came to be known as the Murrow Boys.
Answer
correspondents. During the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys. From the Edward R. Murrow article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Multilingualism. Multilingualism 87 · Edward R. Murrow 80 · Couscous 75 · Carolina Herrera 72 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Couscous. Couscous 410,000 · Deep South 320,000 · Edward R. Murrow 240,000 · Hargeisa 190,000 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 first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS.
- During the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys.
- A pioneer of radio and television news broadcasting, Murrow produced a series of reports on his television program See It Now which helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Edward R. Murrow article was read about 240,000 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 79: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Edward R. Murrow
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, Edward R. Murrow (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : US Information Agency, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
