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Common card · Science
Nevil Maskelyne, a Common card
Nevil Maskelyne was the fifth British Astronomer Royal.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 61
- Power
- 126
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 15,000
Power 126 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Nevil Maskelyne quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Nevil Maskelyne card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He held the ______ from 1765 to 1811.
Answer
office. He held the office from 1765 to 1811. From the Nevil Maskelyne article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Model aircraft. Model aircraft 75 · Teófilo Braga 71 · Selman Waksman 68 · Nevil Maskelyne 65 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.
- He held the office from 1765 to 1811.
- He was the first person to scientifically measure the mass of the planet Earth.
- He created The Nautical Almanac, in full the British Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the Meridian of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, using Tobias Mayer's corrections for Leonhard Euler's Lunar Theory tables.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Nevil Maskelyne article was read about 15,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Nevil Maskelyne
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below Nevil Maskelyne in the power ranking, all domains together.
- George Ellery HaleUncommon · Science · ATK 67 DEF 59
- IntercroppingUncommon · Science · ATK 65 DEF 61
- Jacques d'Adelswärd-FersenCommon · Arts · ATK 69 DEF 57
- Robert MundellUncommon · Science · ATK 70 DEF 56
- Satoshi ŌmuraUncommon · History · ATK 64 DEF 62
- Teófilo BragaUncommon · History · ATK 71 DEF 55
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Nevil Maskelyne (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Louis François Gerard van der Puyl, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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