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William Jones, an Uncommon card
Sir William Jones was a British philologist, scholar and judge.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 62
- Power
- 135
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 55,000
Power 135 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
William Jones quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the William Jones card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Jones also founded the ______ Society in Calcutta in 1784.
Answer
Asiatic. Jones also founded the Asiatic Society in Calcutta in 1784. From the William Jones article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Civil ensign. Civil ensign 78 · William Jones 73 · Simon Singh 70 · Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac 67 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.
- Born in Westminster to the Welsh mathematician William Jones, he moved to the Bengal Presidency where Jones served as a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William and also became a scholar of ancient Indian history.
- He is known for being one of the earliest scholars after father Gaston-Laurent Coeurdoux to assert the kinship of the Indo-European languages.
- Jones also founded the Asiatic Society in Calcutta in 1784.
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 Jones article was read about 55,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 62: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get William Jones
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The cards just above and just below William Jones in the power ranking, all domains together.
- CorfuUncommon · Society · ATK 69 DEF 66
- MihrabUncommon · Society · ATK 65 DEF 70
- Shinya YamanakaUncommon · Science · ATK 73 DEF 62
- Berne ConventionUncommon · Arts · ATK 75 DEF 60
- Simon SinghUncommon · Arts · ATK 70 DEF 65
- Willie GaultUncommon · Society · ATK 74 DEF 61
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, William Jones (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Joshua Reynolds, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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