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Ulf Merbold, an Uncommon card
Ulf Dietrich Merbold is a German physicist and astronaut who flew to space three times, becoming the first West German citizen in space and the first non-American to fly on a NASA spacecraft.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 97
- Power
- 173
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 21,000
Power 173 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Ulf Merbold quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ulf Merbold card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Merbold's father, a ______ soldier, was imprisoned in NKVD special camp Nr.
Answer
Wehrmacht. Merbold's father, a Wehrmacht soldier, was imprisoned in NKVD special camp Nr. From the Ulf Merbold article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
History of Transylvania. History of Transylvania 95 · James Mueller 84 · Tawakkol Karman 79 · Ulf Merbold 76 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.
- Merbold flew on two Space Shuttle missions and on a Russian mission to the space station Mir, spending a total of 49 days in space.
- Merbold's father, a Wehrmacht soldier, was imprisoned in NKVD special camp Nr.
- 2 by the Red Army in 1945 and died there in 1948, and Merbold was brought up in the town of Greiz in East Germany by his mother and grandparents.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ulf Merbold article was read about 21,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 97: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.
How to get Ulf Merbold
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ulf Merbold (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
