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Thomas Cook, an Uncommon card
Thomas Cook was the founder of the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 58
- DEF
- 45
- Power
- 103
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 82,000
Power 103 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Thomas Cook quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Thomas Cook card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He served an ______ as a cabinet maker before becoming an itinerant Baptist preacher.
Answer
apprenticeship. He served an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker before becoming an itinerant Baptist preacher. From the Thomas Cook article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
He was a supporter of the temperance movement and his first foray into tourism was a railway excursion to Loughborough for members of the Leicester Temperance Society in ____.
Answer
1840s. He was a supporter of the temperance movement and his first foray into tourism was a railway excursion to Loughborough for members of the Leicester Temperance Society in 1841. From the Thomas Cook article on Wikipedia.
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 born into a poor family in Derbyshire and left school at the age of ten to start work as a gardener's boy.
- He served an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker before becoming an itinerant Baptist preacher.
- He was a supporter of the temperance movement and his first foray into tourism was a railway excursion to Loughborough for members of the Leicester Temperance Society in 1841.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Thomas Cook article was read about 82,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 58 and blocks with 45: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Thomas Cook
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, Thomas Cook (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
