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Jānis Krūmiņš, a Common card
Jānis Krūmiņš was a Soviet-Latvian professional basketball player.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 36
- Power
- 98
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 5,000
Power 98 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Jānis Krūmiņš quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Jānis Krūmiņš card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Helped by his ______, he was the first giant center that dominated under European baskets, for years.
Answer
height. Helped by his height, he was the first giant center that dominated under European baskets, for years. From the Jānis Krūmiņš article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
A Russian poll that was conducted in ____, named Krūmiņš as the 3rd most popular Soviet men's basketball player of all time, after Arvydas Sabonis and Vladimir Tkachenko.
Answer
2000s. A Russian poll that was conducted in 2006, named Krūmiņš as the 3rd most popular Soviet men's basketball player of all time, after Arvydas Sabonis and Vladimir Tkachenko. From the Jānis Krūmiņš article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Mariusz Fyrstenberg. Mariusz Fyrstenberg 71 · Education in British Columbia 67 · Jānis Krūmiņš 62 · Friedrich Hebbel 54 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.
- Helped by his height, he was the first giant center that dominated under European baskets, for years.
- As a player of the senior Soviet Union national basketball team, Krūmiņš won 3 gold medals at the 1959, 1961, and 1963 EuroBaskets, as well as 3 silver medals at the 1956, 1960, and 1964 Summer Olympic Games.
- A Russian poll that was conducted in 2006, named Krūmiņš as the 3rd most popular Soviet men's basketball player of all time, after Arvydas Sabonis and Vladimir Tkachenko.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Jānis Krūmiņš article was read about 5,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 36: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Jānis Krūmiņš (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown ( Mondadori Publishers), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
