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Uncommon card · History
Lord Kitchener Wants You, an Uncommon card
Lord Kitchener Wants You is a 1914 advertisement by Alfred Leete which was developed into a recruitment poster.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 75
- Power
- 147
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 97,000
Power 147 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Lord Kitchener Wants You quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Lord Kitchener Wants You card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It depicted Lord Kitchener, the ______ Secretary of State for War, above the words "WANTS YOU".
Answer
British. It depicted Lord Kitchener, the British Secretary of State for War, above the words "WANTS YOU". From the Lord Kitchener Wants You article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Lord Kitchener Wants You is a ____ advertisement by Alfred Leete which was developed into a recruitment poster.
Answer
1910s. Lord Kitchener Wants You is a 1914 advertisement by Alfred Leete which was developed into a recruitment poster. From the Lord Kitchener Wants You 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.
- It depicted Lord Kitchener, the British Secretary of State for War, above the words "WANTS YOU".
- Kitchener, wearing the cap of a British field marshal, stares and points at the viewer calling them to enlist in the British Army against the Central Powers.
- The image is considered one of the most iconic and enduring images of World War I. A hugely influential image and slogan, it has inspired imitations in other countries.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Lord Kitchener Wants You article was read about 97,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 75: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Lord Kitchener Wants You
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Lord Kitchener Wants You (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : A. Erhardt, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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