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William Grant Still, an Uncommon card
William Grant Still Jr. was an American composer of nearly two hundred works, including five symphonies, four ballets, nine operas, and more than thirty choral works, art songs, chamber music, and solo works.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 74
- Power
- 146
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 45,000
Power 146 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
William Grant Still quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the William Grant Still card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Still was the first American composer to have an opera ______ by the New York City Opera.
Answer
produced. Still was the first American composer to have an opera produced by the New York City Opera. From the William Grant Still article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Fanzine. Fanzine 79 · Lee Sung-min 75 · William Grant Still 72 · Dirty Three 69 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.
- Born in Mississippi and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, Still attended Wilberforce University and Oberlin Conservatory of Music as a student of George Whitefield Chadwick and then as a student of Edgard Varèse.
- Because of his close association and collaboration with prominent African-American literary and cultural figures, Still is considered to be part of the Harlem Renaissance.
- Still was the first American composer to have an opera produced by the New York City Opera.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The William Grant Still article was read about 45,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 74: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get William Grant Still
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, William Grant Still (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Maud Cuney-Hare, 1874-1936, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
