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Charles Bassett, an Uncommon card
Charles Arthur Bassett II was an American electrical engineer and United States Air Force test pilot and astronaut.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 61
- DEF
- 57
- Power
- 118
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 36,000
Power 118 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Charles Bassett quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Charles Bassett card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Bassett was married and had two ______.
Answer
children. Bassett was married and had two children. From the Charles Bassett article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Nuri al-Said. Nuri al-Said 71 · Abgar V 67 · Lefty Grove 64 · Charles Bassett 61 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 went to Ohio State University for two years and later graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.
- He joined the Air Force as a pilot and graduated from both the Air Force's Experimental Flight Test Pilot School and the Aerospace Research Pilot School.
- Bassett was married and had two children.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Charles Bassett article was read about 36,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 61 and blocks with 57: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Charles Bassett
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, Charles Bassett (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
