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Uncommon card · Society
Shock jock, an Uncommon card
A shock jock is a radio broadcaster or DJ who entertains listeners and attracts attention using humor or melodramatic exaggeration that may offend some portion of the listening audience.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 34
- Power
- 99
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Power 99 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Shock jock quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Shock jock card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is a ______ term within the radio industry.
Answer
popular. It is a popular term within the radio industry. From the Shock jock article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Shock jock. Shock jock 65 · Caisson 61 · Poitín 58 · Henry Cole 55 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Henry Cole. Henry Cole 210,000 · Shock jock 130,000 · Joe Klecko 100,000 · Zaandam 57,000 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.
- The term is used pejoratively to describe provocative or irreverent broadcasters whose mannerisms, statements and actions are typically offensive to much of society.
- It is a popular term within the radio industry.
- A shock jock is the radio equivalent of the tabloid newspaper in that both consider entertaining their audience to be as important as, if not more important than, providing factual information.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Shock jock article was read about 130,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 34: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Shock jock
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.
More Society cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Shock jock in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Geoffrey ZakarianUncommon · Society · ATK 60 DEF 39
- Barbara BouchetUncommon · Arts · ATK 61 DEF 38
- CipherUncommon · Science · ATK 63 DEF 36
- IsomorphismUncommon · Science · ATK 65 DEF 34
- CaissonUncommon · Society · ATK 61 DEF 38
- Joe KleckoUncommon · Society · ATK 63 DEF 36
Card lists
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- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Shock jock (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bill Norton, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
