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Uncommon card · Arts
Peter Carey, an Uncommon card
Peter Philip Carey is an Australian novelist who has lived in New York City for more than three decades.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 57
- Power
- 128
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 38,000
Power 128 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Peter Carey quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Peter Carey card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In May 2008, he was nominated for the Best of the ______ Prize.
Answer
Booker. In May 2008, he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize. From the Peter Carey article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Mike Carey. Mike Carey 78 · Peter Carey 71 · Preludes 68 · Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar 63 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.
- He is one of only five writers to have won the Booker Prize twice , the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee, Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood.
- Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988, for Oscar and Lucinda, and won his second Booker Prize in 2001, for True History of the Kelly Gang.
- In May 2008, he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Peter Carey article was read about 38,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 57: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Peter Carey
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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The cards just above and just below Peter Carey in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Connor FrantaUncommon · Society · ATK 69 DEF 59
- Hyundai AtosUncommon · Science · ATK 65 DEF 63
- Joseph PaxtonUncommon · History · ATK 68 DEF 60
- Architecture of MesopotamiaUncommon · Arts · ATK 72 DEF 56
- Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the PillarUncommon · Arts · ATK 63 DEF 65
- Samuel ReshevskyUncommon · Society · ATK 69 DEF 59
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Peter Carey (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jay Dobkin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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