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Tommy Steele, a Rare card
Sir Thomas Hicks, known professionally as Tommy Steele, is an English entertainer, regarded as Britain's first teen idol and rock and roll star.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 84
- Power
- 158
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 240,000
Power 158 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Tommy Steele quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Tommy Steele card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
With collaborators Lionel Bart and Mike Pratt, Steele received the ____ Ivor Novello Award for Most Outstanding Song of the Year for "A Handful of Songs".
Answer
1950s. With collaborators Lionel Bart and Mike Pratt, Steele received the 1958 Ivor Novello Award for Most Outstanding Song of the Year for "A Handful of Songs". From the Tommy Steele article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Midsummer. Midsummer 86 · Amedeo Modigliani 80 · Symphony No. 5 77 · Tommy Steele 74 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.
- After being discovered at the 2i's Coffee Bar in Soho, London, Steele recorded a string of hit singles including "Rock with the Caveman" and the chart-topper "Singing the Blues".
- Steele's rise to fame was dramatised in The Tommy Steele Story, the soundtrack of which was the first British album to reach number one on the UK Albums Chart.
- With collaborators Lionel Bart and Mike Pratt, Steele received the 1958 Ivor Novello Award for Most Outstanding Song of the Year for "A Handful of Songs".
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Tommy Steele article was read about 240,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 84: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Tommy Steele
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 Tommy Steele in the power ranking, all domains together.
- TheodoraRare · History · ATK 75 DEF 83
- MidsummerRare · History · ATK 86 DEF 72
- MoldaviaRare · History · ATK 81 DEF 77
- KauaʻiRare · Nature · ATK 76 DEF 82
- Nitric acidRare · Science · ATK 76 DEF 82
- WalnutRare · Nature · ATK 71 DEF 87
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Tommy Steele (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Svenska Dagbladet. Ehnemark, Jan., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
