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Uncommon card · Science
Jacques Charles, an Uncommon card
Jacques Alexandre César Charles was a French inventor, scientist, and balloonist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 61
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 124
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 17,000
Power 124 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Jacques Charles quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Jacques Charles card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Their ______ use of hydrogen for lift led to this type of gas balloon being named a Charlière.
Answer
pioneering. Their pioneering use of hydrogen for lift led to this type of gas balloon being named a Charlière. From the Jacques Charles article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Charles wrote almost nothing about mathematics, and most of what has been credited to him was due to mistaking him with another Jacques Charles, also a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, entering on 12 May ____.
Answer
1780s. Charles wrote almost nothing about mathematics, and most of what has been credited to him was due to mistaking him with another Jacques Charles, also a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, entering on 12 May 1785. From the Jacques Charles article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Jayna Hefford. Jayna Hefford 72 · Pierre Schaeffer 69 · Gold extraction 66 · Jacques Charles 61 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.
- Charles wrote almost nothing about mathematics, and most of what has been credited to him was due to mistaking him with another Jacques Charles, also a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, entering on 12 May 1785.
- Charles and the Robert brothers launched the world's first hydrogen-filled gas balloon August 27, 1783, then December 1, 1783, Charles and his co-pilot Nicolas-Louis Robert ascended to a height of about 1,800 feet in a piloted gas balloon.
- Their pioneering use of hydrogen for lift led to this type of gas balloon being named a Charlière.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Jacques Charles article was read about 17,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 61 and blocks with 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Jacques Charles
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Jacques Charles (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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