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Béla Barényi, an Uncommon card
Béla Barényi was an ethnic Hungarian engineer from Austria-Hungary, who was a prolific inventor, sometimes even compared to Thomas Edison.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 57
- Power
- 119
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 19,000
Power 119 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Béla Barényi quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Béla Barényi card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Barényi made numerous crash protection inventions, and is therefore regarded as the father of ______ safety in automotive design.
Answer
passive. Barényi made numerous crash protection inventions, and is therefore regarded as the father of passive safety in automotive design. From the Béla Barényi article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Geographer. Geographer 71 · Abscisic acid 67 · Béla Barényi 62 · Lithophane 59 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.
- Barényi made numerous crash protection inventions, and is therefore regarded as the father of passive safety in automotive design.
- "The lives of thousands of people have probably been saved thanks to Barényi's work." Barényi is also credited with first conceiving the original design for the German people's car in 1925, – notably by Mercedes-Benz, on their website, including his original technical drawing, – five years before Ferdinand Porsche claimed to have made his initial version.
- Barényi was inducted into the Detroit Automotive Hall of Fame in 1994, and nominated for the award of Car Engineer of the Century in 1999.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Béla Barényi article was read about 19,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 57: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Béla Barényi
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Béla Barényi (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
