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Giovanni Battista Riccioli, a Common card
Giovanni Battista Riccioli was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 78
- Power
- 154
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,800
Power 154 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Giovanni Battista Riccioli quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Giovanni Battista Riccioli card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is also widely known for ______ the first double star.
Answer
discovering. He is also widely known for discovering the first double star. From the Giovanni Battista Riccioli article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of films and television shows shot in Liverpool. List of films and television shows shot in Liverpool 84 · Counseling psychology 80 · Giovanni Battista Riccioli 76 · Diminutives in Australian English 73 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Counseling psychology. Counseling psychology 23,000 · Diminutives in Australian English 18,000 · Giovanni Battista Riccioli 9,800 · Eugenio Espejo 4,200 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 is known, among other things, for his experiments with pendulums and with falling bodies, for his discussion of 126 arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and for introducing the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.
- He is also widely known for discovering the first double star.
- He argued that the rotation of the Earth should reveal itself because on a rotating Earth, the ground moves at different speeds at different latitudes.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Giovanni Battista Riccioli article was read about 9,800 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 78: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
How to get Giovanni Battista Riccioli
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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The cards just above and just below Giovanni Battista Riccioli in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Jan Ladislav DussekCommon · Arts · ATK 71 DEF 83
- Keith EricksonCommon · Society · ATK 74 DEF 80
- Rakhat AliyevCommon · History · ATK 75 DEF 79
- List of films and television shows shot in LiverpoolCommon · Arts · ATK 84 DEF 70
- Coastal managementCommon · Science · ATK 78 DEF 76
- Florent AmodioCommon · Society · ATK 75 DEF 79
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Giovanni Battista Riccioli (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Wiccioli, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
