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Uncommon card · Science
George Buchanan, an Uncommon card
George Buchanan was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 76
- Power
- 146
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 18,000
Power 146 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
George Buchanan quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the George Buchanan card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Brown says the ease with which King James VII was deposed in 1689 shows the power of ______ ideas.
Answer
Buchananite. Brown says the ease with which King James VII was deposed in 1689 shows the power of Buchananite ideas. From the George Buchanan article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Electricity market. Electricity market 85 · Poggio Bracciolini 75 · George Buchanan 70 · John Flaxman 67 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Poggio Bracciolini. Poggio Bracciolini 24,000 · George Buchanan 18,000 · Integral fast reactor 11,000 · Method of moments 8,700 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.
- According to historian Keith Brown, Buchanan was "the most profound intellectual sixteenth-century Scotland produced." His ideology of resistance to royal usurpation gained widespread acceptance during the Scottish Reformation.
- Brown says the ease with which King James VII was deposed in 1689 shows the power of Buchananite ideas.
- His treatise De Jure Regni apud Scotos, published in 1579, discussed the doctrine that the source of all political power is the people, and that the king is bound by those conditions under which the supreme power was first committed to his hands, and that it is lawful to resist, even to punish, tyrants.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The George Buchanan 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 70 and blocks with 76: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get George Buchanan
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, George Buchanan (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : After Arnold Bronckorst, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
