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Guinness family, a Legendary card
The Guinness family is an Anglo-Irish noble family known for its achievements in brewing, banking, politics, and Protestant ministry.
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 44
- Power
- 110
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,600,000
Power 110 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Guinness family quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Guinness family card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
The brewing branch is particularly well known among the general public for producing the dry stout beer Guinness, as founded by Arthur Guinness in ____.
Answer
1750s. The brewing branch is particularly well known among the general public for producing the dry stout beer Guinness, as founded by Arthur Guinness in 1759. From the Guinness family article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Guinness family. Guinness family 1,600,000 · Yurii Hudymenko 1,800 · Prudenciana Vallejo López de Moreno 1,100 · Max Zaritsky 680 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.
- The brewing branch is particularly well known among the general public for producing the dry stout beer Guinness, as founded by Arthur Guinness in 1759.
- An Anglo-Irish Protestant family, beginning in the late 18th century, they became a part of what is known in Ireland as the Protestant Ascendancy.
- The "banking line" Guinnesses all descend from Arthur's brother Samuel who set up as a goldbeater in Dublin in 1750, his son Richard, a Dublin barrister, and Richard's son Robert Rundell Guinness who founded Guinness Mahon in 1836.
Why it is Legendary
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Guinness family article was read about 1,600,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 44: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Guinness family
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Guinness family (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Wikimandia, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
