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Ruth Belville, a Common card
Elizabeth Ruth Naomi Belville, also known as the Greenwich Time Lady, was a businesswoman from London.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 49
- DEF
- 42
- Power
- 91
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 7,000
Power 91 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Ruth Belville quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ruth Belville card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
She, her ______ Maria Elizabeth, and her father John Henry, sold people the time.
Answer
mother. She, her mother Maria Elizabeth, and her father John Henry, sold people the time. From the Ruth Belville article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Marcel Hossa. Marcel Hossa 63 · Fornax Cluster 58 · Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific Railway 55 · Ruth Belville 49 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.
- She, her mother Maria Elizabeth, and her father John Henry, sold people the time.
- This was done by setting Belville's watch to Greenwich Mean Time, as shown by the Greenwich clock, each day and then "selling" people the time by letting them look at the watch and adjust theirs.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ruth Belville article was read about 7,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 49 and blocks with 42: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Ruth Belville
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ruth Belville (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Fox Photos/Hulton Archive. Fotograf nicht namentlich bekannt, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
