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Alexander Winton, a Common card
Alexander Winton was a Scottish-American bicycle, automobile, and diesel engine designer and inventor, as well as a businessman and racecar driver.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 56
- DEF
- 39
- Power
- 95
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 7,900
Power 95 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Alexander Winton quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Alexander Winton card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Winton founded the Winton Motor Carriage Company in ____ in Cleveland, Ohio, making the city an important hub of early automotive manufacturing.
Answer
1890s. Winton founded the Winton Motor Carriage Company in 1897 in Cleveland, Ohio, making the city an important hub of early automotive manufacturing. From the Alexander Winton article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Gwen Jorgensen. Gwen Jorgensen 64 · James Dunlop 61 · Alexander Winton 56 · Charles E. Leiserson 53 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.
- Winton founded the Winton Motor Carriage Company in 1897 in Cleveland, Ohio, making the city an important hub of early automotive manufacturing.
- His pioneering achievements in the automotive industry included taking one of the first long-distance journeys in America by car and developing one of the first commercial diesel engines.
- Winton left the automotive manufacturing business when he liquidated his car company in 1924 to focus on his powertrain engineering firm, Winton Gas Engine & Mfg.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alexander Winton article was read about 7,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 56 and blocks with 39: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Alexander Winton
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The cards just above and just below Alexander Winton in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Patrik BerglundCommon · Society · ATK 61 DEF 34
- Roger of HowdenCommon · Arts · ATK 61 DEF 34
- Wolfgang HerrndorfCommon · Arts · ATK 54 DEF 41
- Gwen JorgensenCommon · Society · ATK 64 DEF 31
- KuppalliCommon · Society · ATK 53 DEF 42
- Carlo PaalamCommon · Society · ATK 57 DEF 38
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alexander Winton (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : E. G. Williams & Bro, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
