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Common card · Science
Léon Thévenin, a Common card
The Léon Thévenin is a French cable-laying vessel named in honour of French engineer Léon Charles Thévenin.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 42
- DEF
- 16
- Power
- 58
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,800
Power 58 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 5 % of WikiCards cards.
Léon Thévenin quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Léon Thévenin card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The next day the FDR was located and ______.
Answer
recovered. The next day the FDR was located and recovered. From the Léon Thévenin article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
César Belli. César Belli 46 · Léon Thévenin 42 · O-2390 39 · Denton raft 35 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.
- The Léon Thévenin was famously used in conjunction with a robot submarine named Scarab 1 for recovering the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder boxes from Air India Flight 182 that was destroyed in mid-air by a bomb as it was crossing Irish airspace, on 23 June 1985.
- By 4 July, the sonar of the British ship Gardline Locater had detected signals on the seabed and on 9 July the CVR was pin-pointed and raised to the surface by the Scarab 1.
- The next day the FDR was located and recovered.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Léon Thévenin article was read about 1,800 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 42 and blocks with 16: each hit it takes is cut by 6 %.
How to get Léon Thévenin
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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The cards just above and just below Léon Thévenin in the power ranking, all domains together.
- César BelliCommon · Society · ATK 46 DEF 12
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- Herbert L. OgierCommon · History · ATK 44 DEF 14
- Swedish Cottage Marionette TheatreCommon · Arts · ATK 42 DEF 16
- I've Got a Pain in My SawdustCommon · Arts · ATK 42 DEF 16
- Montorio nei FrentaniCommon · Society · ATK 34 DEF 24
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Léon Thévenin (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
