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Uncommon card · Arts
James Finlayson, an Uncommon card
James Henderson Finlayson was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 56
- Power
- 125
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 34,000
Power 125 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
James Finlayson quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the James Finlayson card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Finlayson was known by a variety of ______.
Answer
nicknames. Finlayson was known by a variety of nicknames. From the James Finlayson article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
La que se avecina. La que se avecina 79 · Missa solemnis 75 · James Finlayson 69 · Fletcher Henderson 66 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.
- Balding, with a fake moustache, he had many trademark comic mannerisms, including his squinting, outraged double-take reactions, and his characteristic exclamation: "D'ooooooh!" He is the best remembered comic foil of Laurel and Hardy.
- Finlayson was known by a variety of nicknames.
- According to Laurel and Hardy scholar Randy Skretvedt, he "called himself Jimmy, was known around the lot as Jim and is usually referred to today as 'Fin'", a truncated version of his surname, as author John McCabe also noted in his 1961 biography Mr. Laurel & Mr. Hardy.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The James Finlayson article was read about 34,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 56: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get James Finlayson
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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- La que se avecinaUncommon · Arts · ATK 79 DEF 46
- Alexis JordanUncommon · Arts · ATK 65 DEF 60
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, James Finlayson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Abbe, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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