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Rare card · History
Ben Bernanke, a Rare card
Ben Shalom Bernanke is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 88
- Power
- 169
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 270,000
Power 169 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Ben Bernanke quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ben Bernanke card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
After leaving the Federal Reserve, he was appointed a ______ fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Answer
distinguished. After leaving the Federal Reserve, he was appointed a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution. From the Ben Bernanke article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ian Botham. Ian Botham 91 · Andrew Wakefield 88 · Alessia Russo 84 · Ben Bernanke 81 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.
- After leaving the Federal Reserve, he was appointed a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution.
- During his tenure as chairman, Bernanke oversaw the Federal Reserve's response to the 2008 financial crisis, for which he was named the 2009 Time Person of the Year.
- Before becoming Federal Reserve chairman, Bernanke was a tenured professor at Princeton University and chaired the Department of Economics there from 1996 to September 2002, when he went on public service leave.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ben Bernanke article was read about 270,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 88: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
How to get Ben Bernanke
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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- Alessia RussoRare · Society · ATK 84 DEF 85
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ben Bernanke (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : United States Federal Reserve, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
