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Owen D. Young, an Uncommon card
Owen D. Young was an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference in 1929 as a member of the Reparation Commission.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 38
- Power
- 100
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 25,000
Power 100 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Owen D. Young quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Owen D. Young card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
RCA was ______ into as another traded company in 1932.
Answer
separated. RCA was separated into as another traded company in 1932. From the Owen D. Young article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Owen D. Young was an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference in ____ as a member of the Reparation Commission.
Answer
1920s. Owen D. Young was an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference in 1929 as a member of the Reparation Commission. From the Owen D. Young article on Wikipedia.
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 is known for the eponymous Young Plan devised in 1929 to settle Germany's World War I debt and for the creation of the Radio Corporation of America.
- Young founded RCA as a subsidiary of General Electric in 1919, he became its first chairman and continued in that position until 1929.
- RCA was separated into as another traded company in 1932.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Owen D. Young article was read about 25,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 38: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Owen D. Young
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Owen D. Young (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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