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Ernest Joyce, a Common card
Ernest Edward Mills Joyce AM was a Royal Naval seaman and explorer who participated in four Antarctic expeditions during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, in the early 20th century.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 91
- Power
- 162
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 5,600
Power 162 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Ernest Joyce quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ernest Joyce card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He served under both Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest ______.
Answer
Shackleton. He served under both Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton. From the Ernest Joyce article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ingrida Šimonytė. Ingrida Šimonytė 82 · Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer 79 · Ivo Josipović 75 · Ernest Joyce 71 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Ivo Josipović. Ivo Josipović 19,000 · Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer 9,100 · Ernest Joyce 5,600 · List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Flanders 3,500 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 served under both Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton.
- As a member of the Ross Sea party in Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Joyce earned an Albert Medal for his actions in bringing the stricken party to safety, after a traumatic journey on the Great Ice Barrier.
- He was awarded the Polar Medal with four bars, one of only two men to be so honoured, the other being his contemporary, Frank Wild.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ernest Joyce article was read about 5,600 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 91: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Ernest Joyce
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ernest Joyce (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Arnold Spencer-Smith, Ross Sea party photographer (1883 - 1916), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
