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Uncommon card · Science
Carver Mead, an Uncommon card
Carver Andress Mead is an American scientist and engineer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 83
- Power
- 158
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 17,000
Power 158 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Carver Mead quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Carver Mead card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Mead has also been involved in the ______ of more than 20 companies.
Answer
founding. Mead has also been involved in the founding of more than 20 companies. From the Carver Mead article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
COVID-19 pandemic in the San Francisco Bay Area. COVID-19 pandemic in the San Francisco Bay Area 89 · Sociological theory 79 · Carver Mead 75 · Thomas Harriot 72 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Thomas Harriot. Thomas Harriot 24,000 · Carver Mead 17,000 · Paul Steinhardt 13,000 · COVID-19 pandemic in the San Francisco Bay Area 4,800 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.
- He is the Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology, having taught there for over 40 years.
- A pioneer of modern microelectronics, Mead has made contributions to the development and design of semiconductors, digital chips, and silicon compilers, technologies which form the foundations of modern very-large-scale integration chip design.
- Mead has also been involved in the founding of more than 20 companies.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Carver Mead article was read about 17,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 83: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get Carver Mead
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, Carver Mead (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Norman Seeff, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
