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Ben Carson, an Epic card
Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. is an American retired neurosurgeon, academic, author, and government official serving as the National Nutrition Advisor at the Department of Agriculture since 2025.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 91
- DEF
- 99
- Power
- 190
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 890,000
Power 190 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Ben Carson quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ben Carson card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
A member of the ______ Party, he served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021.
Answer
Republican. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021. From the Ben Carson article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Carson became the youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery in the United States in ____, when he took the job at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center at age 33.
Answer
1980s. Carson became the youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery in the United States in 1984, when he took the job at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center at age 33. From the Ben Carson 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.
- A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021.
- Carson became the youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery in the United States in 1984, when he took the job at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center at age 33.
- In 1987, he gained fame for leading a team of surgeons in the first-known separation of conjoined twins joined at the back of the head.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ben Carson article was read about 890,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 91 and blocks with 99: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Ben Carson
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ben Carson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
