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Uncommon card · Science
Xenophanes, an Uncommon card
Xenophanes of Colophon was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, poet, and critic of Homer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 81
- Power
- 157
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 56,000
Power 157 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Xenophanes quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Xenophanes card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was born in Ionia and travelled ______ the Greek-speaking world in early classical antiquity.
Answer
throughout. He was born in Ionia and travelled throughout the Greek-speaking world in early classical antiquity. From the Xenophanes article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
World economy. World economy 85 · Parallel ATA 80 · Xenophanes 76 · Erbium 71 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.
- He was born in Ionia and travelled throughout the Greek-speaking world in early classical antiquity.
- As a poet, Xenophanes was known for his critical style, writing poems that are considered among the first satires.
- He composed elegiac couplets that criticised his society's traditional values of wealth, excesses, and athletic victories.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Xenophanes article was read about 56,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 81: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Xenophanes
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, Xenophanes (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
