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Jacques Demy, an Uncommon card
Jacques Demy was a French director, screenwriter and lyricist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 28
- Power
- 88
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 87,000
Power 88 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
Jacques Demy quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Jacques Demy card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside ______ like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut.
Answer
contemporaries. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. From the Jacques Demy article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Jacques Demy. Jacques Demy 60 · Jerome Tang 57 · George Eads 54 · Adolfo de la Parra 50 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
George Eads. George Eads 180,000 · John Shrapnel 110,000 · Jacques Demy 87,000 · Fahmaan Khan 68,000 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.
- He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut.
- Demy's films are celebrated for their visual style, which drew upon diverse sources such as classic Hollywood musicals, the plein-air realism of his French New Wave colleagues, fairy tales, jazz, Japanese manga, and the opera.
- His films contain overlapping continuity, lush musical scores and motifs like teenage love, labor rights, chance encounters, incest, and the intersection between dreams and reality.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Jacques Demy article was read about 87,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 28: each hit it takes is cut by 11 %.
How to get Jacques Demy
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Jacques Demy in the power ranking, all domains together.
- John ShrapnelUncommon · Arts · ATK 61 DEF 27
- Nimrod WorkmanUncommon · Arts · ATK 56 DEF 32
- ArtisanUncommon · Society · ATK 50 DEF 38
- Jerome TangUncommon · Society · ATK 57 DEF 31
- MimosaUncommon · Nature · ATK 56 DEF 32
- FabalesUncommon · Nature · ATK 49 DEF 39
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Jacques Demy (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
