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Epic card · Arts
Fatboy Slim, an Epic card
Norman Quentin Cook, known professionally as Fatboy Slim, is an English musician and DJ who helped popularise the big beat genre in the 1990s.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 180
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 770,000
Power 180 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Fatboy Slim quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Fatboy Slim card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
However, Cook was ______ playing pop music.
Answer
uncomfortable. However, Cook was uncomfortable playing pop music. From the Fatboy Slim article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Norman Quentin Cook, known professionally as Fatboy Slim, is an English musician and DJ who helped popularise the big beat genre in the ____s.
Answer
1990s. Norman Quentin Cook, known professionally as Fatboy Slim, is an English musician and DJ who helped popularise the big beat genre in the 1990s. From the Fatboy Slim article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Steven Soderbergh. Steven Soderbergh 89 · The Offspring 86 · The Twelve Days of Christmas 83 · Fatboy Slim 80 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 music makes extensive use of samples from eclectic genres, combined with pop structures, processed rhythms and "sloganistic" vocals.
- In 1985, Cook joined as the bassist for the indie rock band the Housemartins, who achieved a number-one single with their 1986 cover of "Caravan of Love".
- However, Cook was uncomfortable playing pop music.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Fatboy Slim article was read about 770,000 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 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Fatboy Slim
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, Fatboy Slim (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Tadeáš Kirschner, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
