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Gerald Wilson, a Common card
Gerald Stanley Wilson was an American jazz trumpeter, big band bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 41
- Power
- 105
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 12,000
Power 105 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Gerald Wilson quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gerald Wilson card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Born in ______, he was based in Los Angeles from the early 1940s.
Answer
Mississippi. Born in Mississippi, he was based in Los Angeles from the early 1940s. From the Gerald Wilson article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Unified S-band. Unified S-band 68 · Gerald Wilson 64 · Ibrahim Hashem 61 · Miloš Crnjanski 56 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.
- Born in Mississippi, he was based in Los Angeles from the early 1940s.
- He arranged music for Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Julie London, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, Lionel Hampton, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, and Nancy Wilson.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gerald Wilson article was read about 12,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 41: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Gerald Wilson
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, Gerald Wilson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Richard Newhouse Marina, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
