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Mark Cavendish, an Uncommon card
Sir Mark Simon Cavendish is a Manx retired professional cyclist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 93
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 189
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 160,000
Power 189 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Mark Cavendish quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Mark Cavendish card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is widely considered one of the ______ road sprinters of all time.
Answer
greatest. He is widely considered one of the greatest road sprinters of all time. From the Mark Cavendish article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Islamic schools and branches. Islamic schools and branches 260,000 · Mark Cavendish 160,000 · John Heisman 120,000 · Roberto Luongo 93,000 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.
- As a track cyclist he specialised in the madison, points race and scratch race disciplines, as a road racer he was a sprinter.
- He is widely considered one of the greatest road sprinters of all time.
- In his first years as an elite track rider, Cavendish won gold in the madison at the 2005 and 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships riding for Great Britain, with Rob Hayles and Bradley Wiggins respectively, and in the scratch race at the 2006 Commonwealth Games riding for Isle of 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 Mark Cavendish article was read about 160,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 93 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Mark Cavendish
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mark Cavendish (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Antoine Blondin, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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