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Uncommon card · History
M. S. Swaminathan, an Uncommon card
Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was an Indian geneticist and plant breeder, administrator and humanitarian.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 97
- Power
- 175
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Power 175 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
M. S. Swaminathan quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the M. S. Swaminathan card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Swaminathan was a ______ leader of the green revolution.
Answer
global. Swaminathan was a global leader of the green revolution. From the M. S. Swaminathan article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
History of Germany. History of Germany 97 · Éric Zemmour 94 · John Kenneth Galbraith 85 · M. S. Swaminathan 78 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.
- Swaminathan was a global leader of the green revolution.
- He has been called the main architect of the green revolution in India for his leadership and role in introducing and further developing high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice.
- Swaminathan's collaborative scientific efforts with Norman Borlaug, spearheading a mass movement with farmers and other scientists and backed by public policies, saved India and Pakistan from certain famine-like conditions in the 1960s.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The M. S. Swaminathan article was read about 150,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 97: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.
How to get M. S. Swaminathan
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, M. S. Swaminathan (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
