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Uncommon card · Science
Robert J. Van de Graaff, an Uncommon card
Robert Jemison Van de Graaff was an American physicist and inventor.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 171
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 30,000
Power 171 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Robert J. Van de Graaff quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Robert J. Van de Graaff card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Van de Graaff earned his DPhil degree at Oxford as a ______ Scholar.
Answer
Rhodes. Raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Van de Graaff earned his DPhil degree at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. From the Robert J. Van de Graaff article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
History of Guatemala. History of Guatemala 97 · Cell culture 87 · Miss Universe Philippines 2024 81 · Robert J. Van de Graaff 75 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Corvus. Corvus 60,000 · Miss Universe Philippines 2024 45,000 · Robert J. Van de Graaff 30,000 · Al-Battani 22,000 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 is best known for developing the Van de Graaff generator, a high-voltage electrostatic machine that became a fundamental tool in nuclear physics research.
- Raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Van de Graaff earned his DPhil degree at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
- In Europe, lectures by Marie Curie and Ernest Rutherford encouraged him to develop methods for accelerating particles to nuclear energies.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Robert J. Van de Graaff article was read about 30,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Robert J. Van de Graaff
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Robert J. Van de Graaff (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
