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Margaret E. Knight, an Uncommon card
Margaret Eloise Knight was an American inventor, notably of a machine to produce flat-bottomed paper bags.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 82
- Power
- 151
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 34,000
Power 151 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Margaret E. Knight quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Margaret E. Knight card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
She has been called "the most famous 19th-century woman ______".
Answer
inventor. She has been called "the most famous 19th-century woman inventor". From the Margaret E. Knight article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
She founded the Eastern Paper Bag Company in ____, creating paper bags for groceries similar in form to the ones that would be used in later generations.
Answer
1870s. She founded the Eastern Paper Bag Company in 1870, creating paper bags for groceries similar in form to the ones that would be used in later generations. From the Margaret E. Knight article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Albert A. Michelson. Albert A. Michelson 52,000 · Margaret E. Knight 34,000 · List of viceroys of New Spain 23,000 · Argentine Naval Aviation 16,000 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.
- She has been called "the most famous 19th-century woman inventor".
- She founded the Eastern Paper Bag Company in 1870, creating paper bags for groceries similar in form to the ones that would be used in later generations.
- Knight received dozens of patents in different fields and became a symbol for women's empowerment.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Margaret E. Knight article was read about 34,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 82: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get Margaret E. Knight
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Margaret E. Knight (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Boston Sunday Post, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
