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Ken Alibek, an Uncommon card
Kanatzhan "Kanat" Baizakovich Alibekov, known as Kenneth "Ken" Alibek since 1992, is a Kazakh-American microbiologist, bioweaponeer, and biological warfare administrative management expert.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 50
- Power
- 120
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 21,000
Power 120 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Ken Alibek quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ken Alibek card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was the first deputy director of ______.
Answer
Biopreparat. He was the first deputy director of Biopreparat. From the Ken Alibek article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Kanatzhan "Kanat" Baizakovich Alibekov, known as Kenneth "Ken" Alibek since ____, is a Kazakh-American microbiologist, bioweaponeer, and biological warfare administrative management expert.
Answer
1990s. Kanatzhan "Kanat" Baizakovich Alibekov, known as Kenneth "Ken" Alibek since 1992, is a Kazakh-American microbiologist, bioweaponeer, and biological warfare administrative management expert. From the Ken Alibek article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ken Alibek. Ken Alibek 70 · Spatial ability 67 · Acyl group 64 · Band-e Amir National Park 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.
- He was the first deputy director of Biopreparat.
- During his career in Soviet bioweaponry development in the late 1970s and 1980s, Alibekov managed projects that included weaponizing glanders and Marburg hemorrhagic fever, and created Russia's first tularemia bomb.
- His most prominent accomplishment was the creation of a new "battle strain" of anthrax, known as "Strain 836", later described by the Los Angeles Times as "the most virulent and vicious strain of anthrax known to man".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ken Alibek article was read about 21,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 50: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Ken Alibek
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ken Alibek (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : USG: NIH, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
