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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, a Rare card
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease, is an incurable and always fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 83
- Power
- 164
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 480,000
Ranked #1,669 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Bovine spongiform encephalopathy card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Symptoms include abnormal ______, trouble walking, and weight loss.
Answer
behavior. Symptoms include abnormal behavior, trouble walking, and weight loss. From the Bovine spongiform encephalopathy article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in August 2020. Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in August 2020 89 · List of federal judges appointed by George W. Bush 86 · Bovine spongiform encephalopathy 81 · John B. Cobb 78 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Human body. Human body 620,000 · Bovine spongiform encephalopathy 480,000 · John B. Cobb 12,000 · Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in August 2020 1,600 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- Symptoms include abnormal behavior, trouble walking, and weight loss.
- Later in the course of the disease, the cow becomes unable to function normally.
- There is conflicting information about the time between infection and onset of symptoms.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Bovine spongiform encephalopathy article was read about 480,000 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 83: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Dr. Art Davis, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.




