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Harry Kroto, a Common card
Sir Harold Walter Kroto was an English chemist.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 88
- Power
- 163
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 11,000
Power 163 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Harry Kroto quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Harry Kroto card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was the ______ of many other honors and awards.
Answer
recipient. He was the recipient of many other honors and awards. From the Harry Kroto article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
He shared the ____ Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes.
Answer
1990s. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. From the Harry Kroto article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Ding Ling. Ding Ling 16,000 · Harry Kroto 11,000 · History of Tallahassee, Florida 7,800 · 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts 5,300 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 shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes.
- He was the recipient of many other honors and awards.
- Kroto ended his career as the Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University, which he joined in 2004.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Harry Kroto article was read about 11,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 88: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
How to get Harry Kroto
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Harry Kroto (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Janwikifoto, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
