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Uncommon card · History
David Thompson, an Uncommon card
David Thompson was a British fur trader, surveyor, and cartographer, known to some native people as "Koo-Koo-Sint" or "the Stargazer".
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 84
- Power
- 159
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 36,000
Power 159 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
David Thompson quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the David Thompson card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
For this historic feat, Thompson has been described as the "greatest practical land ______ that the world has produced".
Answer
geographer. For this historic feat, Thompson has been described as the "greatest practical land geographer that the world has produced". From the David Thompson article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ryszard Kapuściński. Ryszard Kapuściński 84 · Shintaro Ishihara 79 · David Thompson 75 · Ladislaus IV of Hungary 70 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.
- Over Thompson's career, he travelled 90,000 kilometres across North America, mapping 4.9 million square kilometres of the continent along the way.
- For this historic feat, Thompson has been described as the "greatest practical land geographer that the world has produced".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The David Thompson article was read about 36,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 84: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get David Thompson
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, David Thompson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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