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USS Bancroft, a Common card
The second USS Bancroft was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy, which briefly served in 1919.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 56
- DEF
- 44
- Power
- 100
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,600
Power 100 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
USS Bancroft quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the USS Bancroft card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Placed in reserve, the ship lay idle before being ______ for World War II.
Answer
reactivated. Placed in reserve, the ship lay idle before being reactivated for World War II. From the USS Bancroft article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The second USS Bancroft was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy, which briefly served in ____.
Answer
1910s. The second USS Bancroft was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy, which briefly served in 1919. From the USS Bancroft article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Bombardment of Algiers. Bombardment of Algiers 2,700 · Bruce Botelho 2,100 · USS Bancroft 1,600 · Konstanty Korniakt 1,200 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.
- Placed in reserve, the ship lay idle before being reactivated for World War II.
- She was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1940, where she served as HMCS St. Francis in the Battle of the Atlantic escorting convoys.
- The ship was declared surplus in April 1945, sold for scrap and sank on the way to the breakers after a collision in July.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The USS Bancroft article was read about 1,600 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 56 and blocks with 44: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get USS Bancroft
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, USS Bancroft (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : U.S. Navy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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