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Pong Dam, a Common card
The Pong Dam, also known as the Beas Dam, is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Beas River in Khatiyar, Kangra district in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India, just upstream of Talwara.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 55
- DEF
- 32
- Power
- 87
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 11,000
Power 87 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
Pong Dam quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Pong Dam card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
At the time of its ______, the Pong Dam was the tallest of its type in India.
Answer
completion. At the time of its completion, the Pong Dam was the tallest of its type in India. From the Pong Dam article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of Bengali-language authors. List of Bengali-language authors 66 · Mikuláš Dzurinda 61 · Luke McShane 58 · Pong Dam 55 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 purpose of the dam is water storage for irrigation and hydroelectric power generation.
- As the second phase of the Beas Project, construction on the dam began in 1961 and was completed in 1974.
- At the time of its completion, the Pong Dam was the tallest of its type in India.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Pong Dam article was read about 11,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 55 and blocks with 32: each hit it takes is cut by 13 %.
How to get Pong Dam
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The cards just above and just below Pong Dam in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Kateb YacineCommon · Arts · ATK 59 DEF 28
- Marvin HierCommon · Arts · ATK 56 DEF 31
- Mikuláš DzurindaCommon · History · ATK 61 DEF 26
- Quirino CristianiCommon · Arts · ATK 58 DEF 29
- RitchieCommon · Arts · ATK 52 DEF 35
- Zarley ZalapskiCommon · Society · ATK 58 DEF 29
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Pong Dam (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : 502hsuya, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
