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Wisława Szymborska, an Uncommon card
Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 66
- Power
- 132
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 56,000
Power 132 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Wisława Szymborska quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Wisława Szymborska card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Born in Prowent, she ______ in Kraków until the end of her life.
Answer
resided. Born in Prowent, she resided in Kraków until the end of her life. From the Wisława Szymborska article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the ____ Nobel Prize in Literature.
Answer
1990s. Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. From the Wisława Szymborska 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.
- Born in Prowent, she resided in Kraków until the end of her life.
- In Poland, Szymborska's books have reached sales rivaling prominent prose authors, though she wrote in a poem, "Some Like Poetry", that "perhaps" two in a thousand people like poetry.
- Szymborska was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Wisława Szymborska article was read about 56,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 66: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Wisława Szymborska
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Wisława Szymborska (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Mariusz Kubik, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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