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Uncommon card · Science
Chloroquine, an Uncommon card
Chloroquine is an antiparasitic medication that treats malaria.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 84
- Power
- 160
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 66,000
Power 160 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Chloroquine quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Chloroquine card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
This kills the parasite and stops the ______ from spreading.
Answer
infection. This kills the parasite and stops the infection from spreading. From the Chloroquine article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Petroleum. Petroleum 89 · Rofecoxib 82 · Chloroquine 76 · Praseodymium 73 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Chloroquine. Chloroquine 66,000 · Hemispatial neglect 41,000 · Philipp Melanchthon 24,000 · Red and Purple Modernization Project 6,500 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.
- It works by increasing the levels of heme in the blood, a substance toxic to the malarial parasite.
- This kills the parasite and stops the infection from spreading.
- Certain types of malaria, resistant strains, and complicated cases typically require different or additional medication.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Chloroquine article was read about 66,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 84: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Chloroquine
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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The cards just above and just below Chloroquine in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Train stationUncommon · Society · ATK 77 DEF 83
- PraseodymiumUncommon · Science · ATK 73 DEF 87
- Carnac stonesUncommon · History · ATK 78 DEF 82
- Martin Luther and antisemitismUncommon · History · ATK 83 DEF 77
- The Canon of MedicineUncommon · Arts · ATK 76 DEF 84
- Cell signalingUncommon · Nature · ATK 80 DEF 80
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Chloroquine (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Fvasconcellos, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
