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Uncommon card · History
Steve Fossett, an Uncommon card
James Stephen Fossett was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 97
- Power
- 181
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 91,000
Power 181 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Steve Fossett quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Steve Fossett card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a ______ and in a fixed-wing aircraft.
Answer
balloon. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft. From the Steve Fossett article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
History of Belgium. History of Belgium 91 · Poisson point process 87 · Steve Fossett 84 · Offa of Mercia 81 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 the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft.
- He made his fortune in the financial services industry and held world records for five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot.
- A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club, Fossett set more than one hundred records in five different sports, sixty of which still stood at the time of his death.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Steve Fossett article was read about 91,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 97: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.
How to get Steve Fossett
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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- Eddie EdwardsUncommon · Society · ATK 92 DEF 89
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- Poisson point processUncommon · Science · ATK 87 DEF 94
- Frank WhittleUncommon · History · ATK 83 DEF 98
- Music of the United StatesUncommon · Arts · ATK 88 DEF 93
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Steve Fossett (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
