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Carsten Niebuhr, a Common card
Carsten Niebuhr, or Karsten Niebuhr, was a German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer in the service of Denmark-Norway.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 53
- Power
- 119
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 10,000
Power 119 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Carsten Niebuhr quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Carsten Niebuhr card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
He was the father of the Danish-German statesman and historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, who published an account of his father's life in ____.
Answer
1810s. He was the father of the Danish-German statesman and historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, who published an account of his father's life in 1817. From the Carsten Niebuhr article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Sonny Colbrelli. Sonny Colbrelli 72 · Carsten Niebuhr 66 · Betty Campbell 63 · C. Gordon Fullerton 60 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.
- He is renowned for participating in the Danish Arabia Expedition and for publishing the first Hausa language vocabulary in Latin script, in collaboration with the Tripolitan diplomat Abd al-Rahman Aga.
- He was the father of the Danish-German statesman and historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, who published an account of his father's life in 1817.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Carsten Niebuhr article was read about 10,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 53: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get Carsten Niebuhr
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Carsten Niebuhr (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
