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Uncommon card · Science
Oswald Avery, an Uncommon card
Oswald Theodore Avery Jr. was a Canadian-American physician and medical researcher.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 74
- Power
- 147
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 16,000
Power 147 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Oswald Avery quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Oswald Avery card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The major part of his career was spent at the ______ Hospital in New York City.
Answer
Rockefeller. The major part of his career was spent at the Rockefeller Hospital in New York City. From the Oswald Avery article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Results of the 2025 Australian federal election in Queensland. Results of the 2025 Australian federal election in Queensland 81 · Museology 77 · Oswald Avery 73 · Horace Wells 69 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.
- The major part of his career was spent at the Rockefeller Hospital in New York City.
- Avery was one of the first molecular biologists and a pioneer in immunochemistry, but he is best known for the experiment that isolated DNA as the material of which genes and chromosomes are made.
- The Nobel laureate Arne Tiselius said that Avery was the most deserving scientist not to receive the Nobel Prize for his work, though he was nominated for the award throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Oswald Avery article was read about 16,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 74: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Oswald Avery
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 Oswald Avery in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Horace WellsUncommon · Science · ATK 69 DEF 78
- Branko ĆopićCommon · Arts · ATK 72 DEF 75
- MuseologyUncommon · History · ATK 77 DEF 70
- Stephen III of HungaryCommon · History · ATK 68 DEF 79
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Oswald Avery (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
