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Mary Somerville, an Uncommon card
Mary Somerville was a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 173
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 71,000
Power 173 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Mary Somerville quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Mary Somerville card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in ____ she and Caroline Herschel were elected as the first female Honorary Members of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Answer
1830s. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel were elected as the first female Honorary Members of the Royal Astronomical Society. From the Mary Somerville article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Facial recognition system. Facial recognition system 91 · Alkaline earth metal 83 · Colossus computer 80 · Mary Somerville 77 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.
- She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel were elected as the first female Honorary Members of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- In John Stuart Mill's 1866 mass petition to the UK Parliament to grant women the right to vote, the first signature on the petition was Somerville's, which she signed before the age of 86.
- When she died in 1872, The Morning Post declared in her obituary that "Whatever difficulty we might experience in the middle of the nineteenth century in choosing a king of science, there could be no question whatever as to the queen of science".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mary Somerville article was read about 71,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Mary Somerville
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mary Somerville (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Thomas Phillips, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
