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Uncommon card · Science
Ferdinand Verbiest, an Uncommon card
Ferdinand Verbiest was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 73
- Power
- 142
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 18,000
Power 142 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Ferdinand Verbiest quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ferdinand Verbiest card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is known as Nan ______ in Chinese.
Answer
Huairen. He is known as Nan Huairen in Chinese. From the Ferdinand Verbiest article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Ursula Burns. Ursula Burns 35,000 · Ferdinand Verbiest 18,000 · David Edward Hughes 8,800 · Boundary Dam Power Station 5,800 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 Pittem near Tielt in the County of Flanders.
- He is known as Nan Huairen in Chinese.
- He was an accomplished mathematician and astronomer and proved to the court of the Kangxi Emperor that European astronomy was more accurate than Chinese astronomy.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ferdinand Verbiest article was read about 18,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 73: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
How to get Ferdinand Verbiest
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- James YorkstonUncommon · Arts · ATK 72 DEF 70
- Christopher R. HillUncommon · History · ATK 71 DEF 71
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ferdinand Verbiest (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
