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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, an Uncommon card
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 51
- Power
- 114
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 120,000
Power 114 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was born in Poland to a family of ______ origin, although he spent much of his life in the Dutch Republic.
Answer
German. He was born in Poland to a family of German origin, although he spent much of his life in the Dutch Republic. From the Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Jensen's inequality. Jensen's inequality 190,000 · Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 120,000 · Synthetic element 86,000 · Mir-375 540 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 was born in Poland to a family of German origin, although he spent much of his life in the Dutch Republic.
- Fahrenheit significantly improved the design and manufacture of thermometers, his were accurate and consistent enough that different observers, each with their own Fahrenheit thermometers, could reliably compare temperature measurements with each other.
- Fahrenheit is also credited with producing the first successful mercury-in-glass thermometers, which were more accurate than the spirit-filled thermometers of his time and of a generally superior design.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit article was read about 120,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 51: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
