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Guy Burgess, a Rare card
Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War era.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 182
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 240,000
Power 182 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Guy Burgess quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Guy Burgess card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
An ______ networker, he embraced left-wing politics at Cambridge and joined the Communist Party of Great Britain.
Answer
assiduous. An assiduous networker, he embraced left-wing politics at Cambridge and joined the Communist Party of Great Britain. From the Guy Burgess article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-____s to the early years of the Cold War era.
Answer
1930s. Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War era. From the Guy Burgess article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
French Resistance. French Resistance 97 · Myanmar conflict 92 · Borobudur 86 · Guy Burgess 82 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.
- His defection in 1951 to the Soviet Union, with his fellow spy Donald Maclean, led to a serious breach in Anglo-United States intelligence co-operation, and caused long-lasting disruption and demoralisation in Britain's foreign and diplomatic services.
- Born into an upper middle class family, Burgess was educated at Eton College, the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and Trinity College, Cambridge.
- An assiduous networker, he embraced left-wing politics at Cambridge and joined the Communist Party of Great Britain.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Guy Burgess 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 82 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Guy Burgess
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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- Myanmar conflictRare · History · ATK 92 DEF 90
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Guy Burgess (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : United Press International, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
