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Loránd Eötvös, a Common card
Baron Loránd Eötvös de Vásárosnamény, also called Baron Roland von Eötvös in English literature, was a Hungarian physicist and politician.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 57
- DEF
- 28
- Power
- 85
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 12,000
Power 85 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
Loránd Eötvös quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Loránd Eötvös card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is remembered today largely for his work on gravitation and surface tension, and the ______ of the torsion pendulum.
Answer
invention. He is remembered today largely for his work on gravitation and surface tension, and the invention of the torsion pendulum. From the Loránd Eötvös article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
T. N. Balakrishna. T. N. Balakrishna 62 · Loránd Eötvös 57 · Ioannis Kolettis 54 · Bradford Grand Mosque 51 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 is remembered today largely for his work on gravitation and surface tension, and the invention of the torsion pendulum.
- In addition to Eötvös Loránd University and the Eötvös Loránd Institute of Geophysics in Hungary, the Eötvös crater on the Moon, the asteroid 12301 Eötvös and the mineral lorándite also bear his name, as well as a peak in the Dolomites.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Loránd Eötvös article was read about 12,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 57 and blocks with 28: each hit it takes is cut by 11 %.
How to get Loránd Eötvös
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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- Paul SérusierCommon · Arts · ATK 50 DEF 35
- T. N. BalakrishnaCommon · Arts · ATK 62 DEF 23
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Loránd Eötvös (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Aladár Székely, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
