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John Ruskin, a Rare card
John Ruskin was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 95
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 189
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 330,000
Power 189 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
John Ruskin quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the John Ruskin card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Ruskin's writing styles and ______ forms were equally varied.
Answer
literary. Ruskin's writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. From the John Ruskin article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Christopher Nolan. Christopher Nolan 6,700,000 · William Shakespeare 4,600,000 · Douglas Adams 480,000 · John Ruskin 330,000 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 wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, political economy, education, museology, geology, botany, ornithology, literature, history, and myth.
- Ruskin's writing styles and literary forms were equally varied.
- He wrote essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale, The King of the Golden River.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The John Ruskin article was read about 330,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 95 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get John Ruskin
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 Ruskin (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : W. & D. Downey, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
