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Uncommon card · Science
Marian Croak, an Uncommon card
Marian Rogers Croak is an American engineer known for her voice over IP related inventions.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 61
- DEF
- 44
- Power
- 105
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 79,000
Power 105 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Marian Croak quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Marian Croak card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In 2022, she was inducted into the ______ Inventors Hall of Fame for her work with VoIP.
Answer
National. In 2022, she was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for her work with VoIP. From the Marian Croak article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Croak worked for three decades at Bell Labs and AT&T where she filed over 200 patents, and has worked at Google since ____ as Vice President of Engineering.
Answer
2010s. Croak worked for three decades at Bell Labs and AT&T where she filed over 200 patents, and has worked at Google since 2014 as Vice President of Engineering. From the Marian Croak article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Peter Turchin. Peter Turchin 68 · Heat capacity 65 · Marian Croak 61 · Cashmere goat 54 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.
- Croak worked for three decades at Bell Labs and AT&T where she filed over 200 patents, and has worked at Google since 2014 as Vice President of Engineering.
- In 2022, she was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for her work with VoIP.
- She is on the advisory board of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Marian Croak article was read about 79,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 61 and blocks with 44: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Marian Croak
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, Marian Croak (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : New America, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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