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Rare card · History
Congo Crisis, a Rare card
The Congo Crisis was a period of political upheaval and conflict between 1960 and 1965 in the Republic of the Congo.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 83
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 183
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 290,000
Power 183 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Congo Crisis quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Congo Crisis card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Around 100,000 people are ______ to have been killed during the crisis.
Answer
believed. Around 100,000 people are believed to have been killed during the crisis. From the Congo Crisis article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Revolutions of 1989. Revolutions of 1989 93 · Billings, Montana 90 · Frank-Walter Steinmeier 87 · Congo Crisis 83 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 crisis began almost immediately after the Congo became independent from Belgium and ended, unofficially, with the entire country under the rule of Joseph-Désiré Mobutu.
- Constituting a series of civil wars, the Congo Crisis was also a proxy conflict in the Cold War, in which the Soviet Union and the United States supported opposing factions.
- Around 100,000 people are believed to have been killed during the crisis.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Congo Crisis article was read about 290,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 83 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Congo Crisis
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The cards just above and just below Congo Crisis in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Omar al-BashirRare · History · ATK 89 DEF 94
- Revolutions of 1989Rare · History · ATK 93 DEF 90
- Brit milahRare · Society · ATK 86 DEF 97
- BushidoRare · Arts · ATK 88 DEF 95
- Billings, MontanaRare · Society · ATK 90 DEF 93
- AstatineRare · History · ATK 83 DEF 100
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Congo Crisis (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
