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Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics, an Uncommon card
Several tropical nations have participated in the Winter Olympics despite not having the climate for winter sports.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 61
- Power
- 131
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 33,000
Power 131 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Partly because of that, their entries are a ______ of human interest stories during the Games.
Answer
subject. Partly because of that, their entries are a subject of human interest stories during the Games. From the Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Max Mirnyi. Max Mirnyi 86 · Collective memory 75 · Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics 70 · Howie Kendrick 67 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.
- Partly because of that, their entries are a subject of human interest stories during the Games.
- The first warm-weather, but not fully tropical, nation participating in the Winter Olympics was Mexico.
- Much of Mexico is at a latitude north of the Tropic of Cancer, and most of the country has a subtropical highland or semi-arid climate, so it is not exclusively a tropical nation.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics article was read about 33,000 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 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jude Freeman, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
