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Quotron, a Common card
Quotron was a Los Angeles–based company that in 1960 became the first financial data technology company to deliver stock market quotes to an electronic screen rather than on a printed ticker tape.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 44
- DEF
- 23
- Power
- 67
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Power 67 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 10 % of WikiCards cards.
Quotron quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Quotron card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The Quotron was developed by Scantlin Electronics, owned by ______ John Scantlin.
Answer
entrepreneur. The Quotron was developed by Scantlin Electronics, owned by entrepreneur John Scantlin. From the Quotron article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Quotron was a Los Angeles–based company that in ____ became the first financial data technology company to deliver stock market quotes to an electronic screen rather than on a printed ticker tape.
Answer
1960s. Quotron was a Los Angeles–based company that in 1960 became the first financial data technology company to deliver stock market quotes to an electronic screen rather than on a printed ticker tape. From the Quotron article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Saab 92. Saab 92 50 · Currency-counting machine 47 · Quotron 44 · Shanmukhapriya 37 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.
- The Quotron offered brokers and money managers up-to-the-minute prices and other information about securities.
- The Quotron was developed by Scantlin Electronics, owned by entrepreneur John Scantlin.
- Scantlin had earlier developed a quotation device that used magnetic tape instead of ticker tape.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Quotron article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 44 and blocks with 23: each hit it takes is cut by 9 %.
How to get Quotron
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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The cards just above and just below Quotron in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Valter hugo mãeCommon · Arts · ATK 50 DEF 17
- Luciano De CrescenzoCommon · Arts · ATK 48 DEF 19
- ShanmukhapriyaCommon · Arts · ATK 37 DEF 30
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Quotron (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Quotron.jpg : MontyPh ( talk ) 17:50, 30 August 2010 (UTC). The original uploader was Mont, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
