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Uncommon card · History
Robert Peary, an Uncommon card
Robert Edwin Peary was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 82
- Power
- 163
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 140,000
Power 163 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Robert Peary quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Robert Peary card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He attended Bowdoin College, then joined the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as a ______.
Answer
draftsman. He attended Bowdoin College, then joined the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as a draftsman. From the Robert Peary article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Cavalry. Cavalry 90 · Robert Peary 81 · Henry Paulson 77 · Abdülmecid II 74 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 was long credited as being the discoverer of the geographic North Pole in April 1909, having led the first expedition to have claimed this achievement, although it is now considered unlikely that he actually reached the Pole.
- Peary was born in Cresson, Pennsylvania, but, following his father's death at a young age, was raised in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
- He attended Bowdoin College, then joined the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as a draftsman.
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 Peary article was read about 140,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 82: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get Robert Peary
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Robert Peary (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Robert Peary, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
