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Shiva Ayyadurai, a Rare card
V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai is an American engineer, entrepreneur, and anti-vaccine activist.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 83
- Power
- 164
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 420,000
Power 164 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Shiva Ayyadurai quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Shiva Ayyadurai card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He has become known for promoting conspiracy theories, ______, and unfounded medical claims.
Answer
pseudoscience. He has become known for promoting conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and unfounded medical claims. From the Shiva Ayyadurai article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kingdom of Jerusalem. Kingdom of Jerusalem 88 · Shiva Ayyadurai 81 · Balen Shah 76 · Nick Mason 73 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Balen Shah. Balen Shah 1,100,000 · Charles I of Austria 790,000 · Oliver North 560,000 · Shiva Ayyadurai 420,000 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 has become known for promoting conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and unfounded medical claims.
- Ayyadurai holds four degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, including a PhD in biological engineering, and is a Fulbright grant recipient.
- In a 2011 article published by Time, Ayyadurai claimed to have invented email as a teenager, in August 1982, he registered the copyright on an email application he had written, asserting in his copyright filing, "I, personally, feel EMAIL is as sophisticated as any electronic mail system on the market today." Historians strongly dispute this account because email was already in use in the early…
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Shiva Ayyadurai article was read about 420,000 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 83: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get Shiva Ayyadurai
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Text : Wikipedia, Shiva Ayyadurai (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Sureshku2019, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
