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Rare card · Science
Oliver Sacks, a Rare card
Oliver Wolf Sacks was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 177
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 350,000
Power 177 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Oliver Sacks quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Oliver Sacks card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Born in London, Sacks received his medical degree in ____ from The Queen's College, Oxford, before moving to the United States, where he spent most of his career.
Answer
1950s. Born in London, Sacks received his medical degree in 1958 from The Queen's College, Oxford, before moving to the United States, where he spent most of his career. From the Oliver Sacks article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Lithium-ion battery. Lithium-ion battery 92 · Principal component analysis 88 · Anxiety 85 · Oliver Sacks 82 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.
- Born in London, Sacks received his medical degree in 1958 from The Queen's College, Oxford, before moving to the United States, where he spent most of his career.
- He interned at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco and completed his residency in neurology and neuropathology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
- Later, he served as neurologist at Beth Abraham Hospital's chronic-care facility in the Bronx, where he worked with a group of survivors of the 1920s sleeping sickness encephalitis lethargica epidemic, who had been unable to move on their own for decades.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Oliver Sacks article was read about 350,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Oliver Sacks
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Oliver Sacks (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : {{Creator: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/related/?fi=name&q=Gotfryd%2C%20Bernard, photogra, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
