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Rare card · History
Tom Lehrer, a Rare card
Thomas Andrew Lehrer was an American musician and mathematician.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 180
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 320,000
Power 180 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Tom Lehrer quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Tom Lehrer card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
His songs ______ popular musical forms, often with original melodies.
Answer
parodied. His songs parodied popular musical forms, often with original melodies. From the Tom Lehrer article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Goryeo. Goryeo 90 · Purgatory 87 · Tom Lehrer 84 · Jon Pertwee 80 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 recorded pithy, humorous, and often political songs that became popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
- His songs parodied popular musical forms, often with original melodies.
- Lehrer's early performances dealt with non-topical subjects and dark humor in songs such as "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park".
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Tom Lehrer article was read about 320,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Tom Lehrer
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Tom Lehrer in the power ranking, all domains together.
- GoryeoRare · History · ATK 90 DEF 90
- PurgatoryRare · Society · ATK 87 DEF 93
- Random-access memoryRare · Science · ATK 80 DEF 100
- CoalRare · Nature · ATK 88 DEF 92
- Hindu KushRare · Nature · ATK 83 DEF 97
- Joe TorreRare · Society · ATK 86 DEF 94
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Tom Lehrer (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Paul Winik of Boston, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
