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Uncommon card · History
USS Princeton, an Uncommon card
USS Princeton was a screw steam warship of the United States Navy.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 75
- Power
- 144
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 20,000
Power 144 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
USS Princeton quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the USS Princeton card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Commanded by Captain Robert F. Stockton, Princeton was launched on 5 ______ 1843.
Answer
September. Commanded by Captain Robert F. Stockton, Princeton was launched on 5 September 1843. From the USS Princeton article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Kanhoji Angre. Kanhoji Angre 35,000 · Red Guards 26,000 · USS Princeton 20,000 · List of titles and honours of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 13,000 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.
- Commanded by Captain Robert F. Stockton, Princeton was launched on 5 September 1843.
- On 28 February 1844, during a Potomac River pleasure cruise for dignitaries, one gun exploded, killing six people, including Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur and Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer, and injuring others, including a United States Senator and Captain Stockton.
- The disaster on board the Princeton killed more top US government officials in one day than any other tragedy in American history.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The USS Princeton article was read about 20,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 75: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get USS Princeton
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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- List of sweet potato cultivarsCommon · Science · ATK 74 DEF 70
- List of titles and honours of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of WellingtonCommon · History · ATK 71 DEF 73
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, USS Princeton (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author or not provided, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
