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Epic card · History
John Glenn, an Epic card
John Herschel Glenn Jr. was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 92
- DEF
- 99
- Power
- 191
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 670,000
Power 191 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
John Glenn quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the John Glenn card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a U.S. ______ from Ohio.
Answer
senator. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a U.S. senator from Ohio. From the John Glenn article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
He was the third American in space and the first to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in ____.
Answer
1960s. He was the third American in space and the first to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. From the John Glenn article on Wikipedia.
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 was the third American in space and the first to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962.
- Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a U.S. senator from Ohio.
- In 1998, he flew into space again at the age of 77.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The John Glenn article was read about 670,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 92 and blocks with 99: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get John Glenn
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, John Glenn (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : U.S. Senate Historical Office, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
