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Uncommon card · Science
Strabo, an Uncommon card
Strabo was a Greek geographer who was born in Asia Minor and lived from 64 or 63 BC to c. 24 AD.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 60
- Power
- 130
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Power 130 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Strabo quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Strabo card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Additionally, Strabo authored historical works, but only fragments and quotations of these survive in the ______ of other authors.
Answer
writings. Additionally, Strabo authored historical works, but only fragments and quotations of these survive in the writings of other authors. From the Strabo article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Roland Barthes. Roland Barthes 77 · Irrational number 73 · Strabo 70 · Mehdi Bazargan 66 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 is best known for his work Geographica, which presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known during his lifetime.
- Additionally, Strabo authored historical works, but only fragments and quotations of these survive in the writings of other authors.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Strabo article was read about 130,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 60: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Strabo
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 Strabo in the power ranking, all domains together.
- CoahuilaUncommon · History · ATK 69 DEF 61
- Mehdi BazarganUncommon · History · ATK 66 DEF 64
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- Brass instrumentUncommon · Arts · ATK 72 DEF 58
- CSS VirginiaUncommon · History · ATK 71 DEF 59
- Cartesian productUncommon · Science · ATK 68 DEF 62
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Strabo (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : André Thévet, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
