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Upton Sinclair, a Rare card
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was an American author, muckraker journalist, and political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 90
- Power
- 172
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 330,000
Power 172 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Upton Sinclair quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Upton Sinclair card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several ______.
Answer
genres. He wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. From the Upton Sinclair article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was an American author, muckraker journalist, and political activist, and the ____ Democratic Party nominee for governor of California.
Answer
1930s. Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was an American author, muckraker journalist, and political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California. From the Upton Sinclair article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Organized crime. Organized crime 90 · Library of Congress 85 · Upton Sinclair 82 · Hays Code 78 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 wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.
- Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his novel, The Jungle, which "exposed the labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry", causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the enactment a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Upton Sinclair article was read about 330,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 90: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Upton Sinclair
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Upton Sinclair (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
