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Strait of Dover, an Uncommon card
The Strait of Dover or Dover Strait is the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel, marking the boundary between the Channel and the North Sea, and separating Great Britain from continental Europe.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 56
- Power
- 119
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 100,000
Power 119 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Strait of Dover quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Strait of Dover card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Between these points lies the most popular route for cross-channel ______.
Answer
swimmers. Between these points lies the most popular route for cross-channel swimmers. From the Strait of Dover article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
1931 China floods. 1931 China floods 190,000 · Pseudoscorpion 130,000 · Strait of Dover 100,000 · Alpine tundra 58,000 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.
- The shortest distance across the strait, at 20.6 miles, is from the South Foreland, northeast of Dover in the English county of Kent, to Cap Gris-Nez, a cape near to Calais in the French département of Pas-de-Calais.
- Between these points lies the most popular route for cross-channel swimmers.
- The entire strait is within the territorial waters of France and the United Kingdom, but a right of transit passage under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea allows vessels of other nations to move freely through the strait.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Strait of Dover article was read about 100,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 56: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Strait of Dover
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Strait of Dover (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : No machine-readable author provided. NormanEinstein assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
