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George Grossmith, an Uncommon card
George Grossmith was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 89
- Power
- 163
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 22,000
Power 163 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
George Grossmith quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the George Grossmith card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
His ______ career spanned more than four decades.
Answer
performing. His performing career spanned more than four decades. From the George Grossmith article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Dungeons & Dragons in popular culture. Dungeons & Dragons in popular culture 86 · History of Australian rules football 83 · Baseball card 78 · George Grossmith 74 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Anthony Braxton. Anthony Braxton 36,000 · George Grossmith 22,000 · Clément Duval 6,900 · Public sculptures by Daniel Chester French 2,700 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.
- His performing career spanned more than four decades.
- As a writer and composer, he created 18 comic operas, nearly 100 musical sketches, some 600 songs and piano pieces, three books and both serious and comic pieces for newspapers and magazines.
- Grossmith created a series of nine characters in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan from 1877 to 1889, including Sir Joseph Porter, in H.M.S. Pinafore, the Major-General in The Pirates of Penzance and Ko-Ko in The Mikado.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The George Grossmith article was read about 22,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 89: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get George Grossmith
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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- Quang TrungUncommon · History · ATK 78 DEF 85
- History of Australian rules footballCommon · Society · ATK 83 DEF 80
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, George Grossmith (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : George Wylie Hutchinson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
