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Guido van Rossum, a Rare card
Guido van Rossum is a Dutch programmer.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 121
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 240,000
Power 121 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Guido van Rossum quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Guido van Rossum card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He remained a ______ of the Python Steering Council through 2019, and withdrew from nominations for the 2020 election.
Answer
member. He remained a member of the Python Steering Council through 2019, and withdrew from nominations for the 2020 election. From the Guido van Rossum article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
He is the creator of the Python programming language, for which he was the "benevolent dictator for life" until he stepped down from the position on 12 July ____.
Answer
2010s. He is the creator of the Python programming language, for which he was the "benevolent dictator for life" until he stepped down from the position on 12 July 2018. From the Guido van Rossum article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Duke. Duke 76 · Jim Croce 70 · Guido van Rossum 67 · Auguste Escoffier 64 ATK in WikiCards.
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 the creator of the Python programming language, for which he was the "benevolent dictator for life" until he stepped down from the position on 12 July 2018.
- He remained a member of the Python Steering Council through 2019, and withdrew from nominations for the 2020 election.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Guido van Rossum article was read about 240,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 54: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Guido van Rossum
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Guido van Rossum (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Kushal Das, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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