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Uncommon card · History
Sandford Fleming, an Uncommon card
Sir Sandford Fleming was a Scottish engineer and inventor.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 83
- Power
- 157
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 34,000
Power 157 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Sandford Fleming quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Sandford Fleming card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Born and raised in Scotland, he ______ to colonial Canada at the age of 18.
Answer
immigrated. Born and raised in Scotland, he immigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. From the Sandford Fleming article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Maria Kalesnikava. Maria Kalesnikava 82 · Kiril Petkov 77 · Sandford Fleming 74 · Wilhelm Liebknecht 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.
- Born and raised in Scotland, he immigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18.
- He promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian, and use of the 24-hour clock as key elements to communicating the accurate time, all of which influenced the creation of Coordinated Universal Time.
- He designed Canada's first postage stamp, produced a great deal of work in the fields of land surveying and map making, engineered much of the Intercolonial Railway and the first several hundred kilometers of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada and founder of the Canadian Institute.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Sandford Fleming article was read about 34,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 83: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get Sandford Fleming
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 Sandford Fleming in the power ranking, all domains together.
- George MeredithUncommon · Arts · ATK 74 DEF 83
- Jöns Jacob BerzeliusUncommon · Science · ATK 74 DEF 83
- Kiril PetkovUncommon · History · ATK 77 DEF 80
- Climate of the ArcticUncommon · Nature · ATK 80 DEF 77
- Duck SoupUncommon · Arts · ATK 76 DEF 81
- Environmental determinismUncommon · Society · ATK 78 DEF 79
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Sandford Fleming (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : John Wycliffe Lowes Forster (1850-1938), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
