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Ed White, a Rare card
Edward Higgins White II was an American aeronautical engineer, United States Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 178
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 230,000
Power 178 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Ed White quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ed White card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was a ______ of the crews of Gemini 4 and Apollo 1.
Answer
member. He was a member of the crews of Gemini 4 and Apollo 1. From the Ed White article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
History of England. History of England 90 · Jill Stein 86 · Sergei Korolev 82 · Ed White 78 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.
- He was a member of the crews of Gemini 4 and Apollo 1.
- After graduating from West Point in 1952 with a Bachelor of Science degree, White was sent to flight training, and assigned to the 22nd Fighter Day Squadron at Bitburg Air Base, West Germany, where he flew the F-86 Sabre and F-100 Super Sabre fighters.
- In 1958, he enrolled in the University of Michigan to study aeronautical engineering, receiving his Master of Science degree in 1959.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ed White article was read about 230,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Ed White
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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The cards just above and just below Ed White in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- GreenRare · Science · ATK 85 DEF 93
- Jill SteinRare · History · ATK 86 DEF 92
- K2-18bRare · Science · ATK 78 DEF 100
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ed White (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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