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Vajont Dam, an Uncommon card
The Vajont Dam or Vaiont Dam is a disused hydro-electric dam in the valley of the Vajont river under Monte Toc, in the municipality of Erto e Casso, 100 kilometres north of Venice, Italy.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 72
- Power
- 149
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 170,000
Power 149 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Vajont Dam quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Vajont Dam card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ was Carlo Semenza.
Answer
engineer. The engineer was Carlo Semenza. From the Vajont Dam article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Behaviorism. Behaviorism 84 · Ajaccio 81 · Vajont Dam 77 · Crane 73 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Crane. Crane 220,000 · Vajont Dam 170,000 · Arches National Park 130,000 · Mount Tai 88,000 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.
- It is one of the tallest dams in the world, with a height of 262 m.
- The dam was conceived in the 1920s and eventually built between 1957 and 1960 by Società Adriatica di Elettricità, at the time the electricity supply and distribution monopoly in northeastern Italy.
- The engineer was Carlo Semenza.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Vajont Dam article was read about 170,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 72: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
How to get Vajont Dam
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Vajont Dam (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Sebi1, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
