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Claude-Étienne Minié, a Common card
Claude-Etienne Minié was a French military instructor and inventor famous for solving the problem of designing a reliable muzzle-loading rifle by inventing the Minié ball and Minié rifle in 1849.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 36
- DEF
- 8
- Power
- 44
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,400
Power 44 (ATK + DEF).
Claude-Étienne Minié quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Claude-Étienne Minié card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He succeeded the ______ work of Henri-Gustave Delvigne and Louis-Étienne de Thouvenin.
Answer
pioneering. He succeeded the pioneering work of Henri-Gustave Delvigne and Louis-Étienne de Thouvenin. From the Claude-Étienne Minié article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Claude-Etienne Minié was a French military instructor and inventor famous for solving the problem of designing a reliable muzzle-loading rifle by inventing the Minié ball and Minié rifle in ____.
Answer
1840s. Claude-Etienne Minié was a French military instructor and inventor famous for solving the problem of designing a reliable muzzle-loading rifle by inventing the Minié ball and Minié rifle in 1849. From the Claude-Étienne Minié article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Gunwale. Gunwale 37,000 · Claude-Étienne Minié 6,400 · Hubert Rouger 170 · Marília Campos 120 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 succeeded the pioneering work of Henri-Gustave Delvigne and Louis-Étienne de Thouvenin.
- Minié served in a number of African campaigns with the Chasseurs, after which he was eventually promoted to captain.
- In 1849 he designed the Minié ball, a cylindrical bullet with a conical hollow in the base which expanded when fired.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Claude-Étienne Minié article was read about 6,400 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 36 and blocks with 8: each hit it takes is cut by 3 %.
How to get Claude-Étienne Minié
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Claude-Étienne Minié (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
