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Douglas Mawson, an Uncommon card
Sir Douglas Mawson was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and academic.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 89
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 189
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 55,000
Power 189 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Douglas Mawson quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Douglas Mawson card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Mawson was born in England and was brought to Australia as an ______.
Answer
infant. Mawson was born in England and was brought to Australia as an infant. From the Douglas Mawson article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Arthur Sullivan. Arthur Sullivan 110,000 · Indonesian occupation of East Timor 86,000 · Douglas Mawson 55,000 · Markus Näslund 43,000 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 is known for being a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton.
- However, most of his geological work was undertaken in South Australia, in particular the Precambrian rocks of the Flinders Ranges.
- Mawson was born in England and was brought to Australia as an infant.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Douglas Mawson article was read about 55,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 89 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Douglas Mawson
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, Douglas Mawson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Thompson, J., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
