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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, an Uncommon card
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 66
- Power
- 138
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 47,000
Power 138 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He held the position of ______ at the Jardin du Roi.
Answer
intendant. He held the position of intendant at the Jardin du Roi. From the Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Akbaruddin Owaisi. Akbaruddin Owaisi 91,000 · Riot 62,000 · Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 47,000 · John Mica 9,500 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 held the position of intendant at the Jardin du Roi.
- Buffon's works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including two prominent French scientists Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier.
- Buffon published thirty-six quarto volumes of his Histoire Naturelle during his lifetime, with additional volumes based on his notes and further research being published in the two decades following his death.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon article was read about 47,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 66: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : François-Hubert Drouais, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
