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Legendary card · Arts
Mel Brooks, a Legendary card
Melvin James Brooks is an American actor, comedian, film director, songwriter and playwright.
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 87
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 181
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 3,000,000
Power 181 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Mel Brooks quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Mel Brooks card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
A ______ of numerous accolades, he is one of the few people to win the EGOT awards.
Answer
recipient. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of the few people to win the EGOT awards. From the Mel Brooks article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Lisa Marie Presley. Lisa Marie Presley 4,800,000 · Mel Brooks 3,000,000 · Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 26,000 · Georgy Bogdanovich Yakulov 1,200 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.
- With a career spanning nine decades, he is known for a variety of successful farces and parodies.
- A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of the few people to win the EGOT awards.
- He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016 and a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017.
Why it is Legendary
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mel Brooks article was read about 3,000,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 87 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Mel Brooks
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mel Brooks (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Angela George at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sharongraphics/, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
