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Gloria Swanson, a Rare card
Gloria Mae Josephine Swanson was an American actress.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 184
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 490,000
Power 184 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Gloria Swanson quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gloria Swanson card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Swanson was born in Chicago and raised in a ______ family that moved from base to base.
Answer
military. Swanson was born in Chicago and raised in a military family that moved from base to base. From the Gloria Swanson article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Aaron Swartz. Aaron Swartz 94 · Søren Kierkegaard 91 · Peter Cushing 87 · Gloria Swanson 84 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.
- She first achieved fame acting in dozens of silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, most famously for her 1950 turn in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, which also earned her a Golden Globe Award.
- Swanson was born in Chicago and raised in a military family that moved from base to base.
- Her infatuation with Essanay Studios actor Francis X. Bushman led to her aunt taking her to tour the actor's Chicago studio.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gloria Swanson article was read about 490,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Gloria Swanson
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, Gloria Swanson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Karl Struss, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
