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Clifton Williams, an Uncommon card
Clifton Curtis Williams Jr., was an American naval aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer, major in the United States Marine Corps, and NASA astronaut, who was killed in a plane crash, he never went into space.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 61
- DEF
- 58
- Power
- 119
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 24,000
Power 119 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Clifton Williams quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Clifton Williams card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The failure caused the flight controls to stop responding, and although he activated the ______ seat, it did not save him.
Answer
ejection. The failure caused the flight controls to stop responding, and although he activated the ejection seat, it did not save him. From the Clifton Williams article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Patrick Tambay. Patrick Tambay 74 · Haris Silajdžić 68 · History of Christian flags 65 · Clifton Williams 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.
- The crash was caused by a mechanical failure in a NASA T-38 jet trainer, which he was piloting to visit his parents in Mobile, Alabama.
- The failure caused the flight controls to stop responding, and although he activated the ejection seat, it did not save him.
- He was the fourth astronaut from NASA's Astronaut Group 3 to have died, the first two having been killed in separate T-38 flights, and the third in the Apollo 1 fire earlier that year.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Clifton Williams article was read about 24,000 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 58: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Clifton Williams
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, Clifton Williams (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
