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Uncommon card · Science
Adolphe Quetelet, an Uncommon card
Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician, and sociologist who founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 40
- Power
- 103
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 21,000
Power 103 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Adolphe Quetelet quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Adolphe Quetelet card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
His name is sometimes spelled with an ______ as Quételet.
Answer
accent. His name is sometimes spelled with an accent as Quételet. From the Adolphe Quetelet article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Acelino Freitas. Acelino Freitas 67 · Adolphe Quetelet 63 · Hydrogen iodide 60 · Type 95 heavy tank 51 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.
- His name is sometimes spelled with an accent as Quételet.
- He also founded the science of anthropometry and developed the body mass index scale, originally called the Quetelet Index.
- His work on measuring human characteristic to determine the ideal l'homme moyen played a key role in the origins of eugenics.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Adolphe Quetelet article was read about 21,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 40: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Adolphe Quetelet
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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- Mossi KingdomsUncommon · History · ATK 62 DEF 41
- Type 95 heavy tankUncommon · History · ATK 51 DEF 52
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Adolphe Quetelet (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Joseph-Arnold Demannez, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
