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Matthias de l'Obel, a Common card
Mathias de l'Obel, Mathias de Lobel or Matthaeus Lobelius was a Flemish physician and botanist who was born in Lille, Flanders, in what is now Hauts-de-France, France, and died at Highgate, London, England.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 78
- Power
- 152
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,000
Power 152 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Matthias de l'Obel quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Matthias de l'Obel card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was the first botanist to appreciate the ______ between monocotyledons and dicotyledons.
Answer
distinction. He was the first botanist to appreciate the distinction between monocotyledons and dicotyledons. From the Matthias de l'Obel article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kenny Rogers. Kenny Rogers 81 · Rob Schneider 77 · Matthias de l'Obel 74 · Daniel Auber 69 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Rob Schneider. Rob Schneider 1,600,000 · Armen Dzhigarkhanyan 13,000 · Matthias de l'Obel 6,000 · Jōdo-ji 1,200 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.
- He studied at the University of Montpellier and practiced medicine in the Low Countries and England, including positions as personal physicians to two monarchs.
- A member of the sixteenth-century Flemish School of Botany, he wrote a series of major treatises on plants in both Latin and Dutch.
- He was the first botanist to appreciate the distinction between monocotyledons and dicotyledons.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Matthias de l'Obel article was read about 6,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 78: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Matthias de l'Obel (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Francis Delaram, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
