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William Burges, an Uncommon card
William Burges was an English architect and designer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 90
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 190
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 24,000
Power 190 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
William Burges quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the William Burges card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Burges won his first major ______ for Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork in 1863 when he was 35.
Answer
commission. Burges won his first major commission for Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork in 1863 when he was 35. From the William Burges article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Andreas Papandreou. Andreas Papandreou 120,000 · Shahid Khaqan Abbasi 89,000 · Post-classical history 64,000 · William Burges 24,000 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.
- Among the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, he sought in his work to escape from both nineteenth-century industrialisation and the Neoclassical architectural style and re-establish the architectural and social values of a utopian medieval England.
- Burges stands within the tradition of the Gothic Revival, his works echoing those of the Pre-Raphaelites and heralding those of the Arts and Crafts movement.
- Burges won his first major commission for Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork in 1863 when he was 35.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The William Burges article was read about 24,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 90 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get William Burges
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, William Burges (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Henry Van der Weyde (1838-1924), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
