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Ken Kesey, a Rare card
Kenneth Elton Kesey was an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 70
- Power
- 145
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 340,000
Power 145 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Ken Kesey quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ken Kesey card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the ______ of the 1960s.
Answer
hippies. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. From the Ken Kesey article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado, and grew up in Springfield, Oregon, graduating from the University of Oregon in ____.
Answer
1950s. Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado, and grew up in Springfield, Oregon, graduating from the University of Oregon in 1957. From the Ken Kesey article on Wikipedia.
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 considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.
- Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado, and grew up in Springfield, Oregon, graduating from the University of Oregon in 1957.
- He began writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1960 after completing a graduate fellowship in creative writing at Stanford University, the novel was an immediate commercial and critical success when published two years later.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ken Kesey article was read about 340,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 70: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Ken Kesey
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ken Kesey (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jacket design by Paul Bacon Author photo by Hank Kranzler, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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