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British Museum, a Rare card
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 97
- DEF
- 83
- Power
- 180
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 420,000
Ranked #843 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
British Museum quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the British Museum card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It documents the story of human culture from its ______ to the present.
Answer
beginnings. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. From the British Museum article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Established in ____, the British Museum was the world's first public national museum.
Answer
1750s. Established in 1753, the British Museum was the world's first public national museum. From the British Museum 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.
- Its permanent collection of eight million artefacts is the largest in the world.
- It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
- Established in 1753, the British Museum was the world's first public national museum.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The British Museum article was read about 420,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 97 and blocks with 83: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get British Museum
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, British Museum (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
