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The Concrete Elephant, a Common card
The Concrete Elephant is a sculpture and local landmark standing along the A30 in Camberley on approach to The Meadows roundabout.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 44
- DEF
- 18
- Power
- 62
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,400
Power 62 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 5 % of WikiCards cards.
The Concrete Elephant quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the The Concrete Elephant card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It was to represent their pioneering use of ______ concrete in pipework.
Answer
reinforced. It was to represent their pioneering use of reinforced concrete in pipework. From the The Concrete Elephant article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The piece was installed in its current location in ____, when Trollope & Colls gained permission to site the elephant at the entrance to their yard off the A30 London Road.
Answer
1960s. The piece was installed in its current location in 1964, when Trollope & Colls gained permission to site the elephant at the entrance to their yard off the A30 London Road. From the The Concrete Elephant 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 was created by Barbara Jones for Trollope & Colls for the Lord Mayor's Show held on the 19 November 1963, carried on a yellow low loader with a pink and grey cab behind a person dressed as a zebra carrying a zebra crossing pole and light and a red post office telephone box.
- It was to represent their pioneering use of reinforced concrete in pipework.
- The piece was installed in its current location in 1964, when Trollope & Colls gained permission to site the elephant at the entrance to their yard off the A30 London Road.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The The Concrete Elephant article was read about 1,400 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 44 and blocks with 18: each hit it takes is cut by 7 %.
How to get The Concrete Elephant
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, The Concrete Elephant (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Antony McCallum, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
