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Frederick Banting, an Uncommon card
Sir Frederick Grant Banting was a Canadian pharmacologist, orthopedist, and field surgeon.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 175
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 120,000
Power 175 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Frederick Banting quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Frederick Banting card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
When he and Macleod received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Banting shared the ______ and award money with Best.
Answer
honours. When he and Macleod received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Banting shared the honours and award money with Best. From the Frederick Banting article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
History of Germany. History of Germany 97 · Zhuge Liang 92 · John Kenneth Galbraith 85 · Frederick Banting 79 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang 220,000 · John Kenneth Galbraith 160,000 · Frederick Banting 120,000 · Cretan War 48,000 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.
- For his co-discovery of insulin and its therapeutic potential, Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with John Macleod.
- Banting and his student, Charles Best, isolated insulin at the University of Toronto in the lab of Scottish physiologist John Macleod.
- When he and Macleod received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Banting shared the honours and award money with Best.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Frederick Banting article was read about 120,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Frederick Banting
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, Frederick Banting (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Louis Schmidt, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
