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Darkness at Noon, an Uncommon card
Darkness at Noon is a novel by Austrian-Hungarian-born novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 56
- Power
- 129
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 84,000
Power 129 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Darkness at Noon quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Darkness at Noon card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The novel is set between 1938 and 1940, after the Great Purge and Moscow show ______.
Answer
trials. The novel is set between 1938 and 1940, after the Great Purge and Moscow show trials. From the Darkness at Noon article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Darkness at Noon is a novel by Austrian-Hungarian-born novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in ____.
Answer
1940s. Darkness at Noon is a novel by Austrian-Hungarian-born novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. From the Darkness at Noon 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.
- His best known work, it is the tale of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government that he had helped to create.
- The novel is set between 1938 and 1940, after the Great Purge and Moscow show trials.
- Despite being based on real events, the novel does not name either Russia or the Soviets, and tends to use generic terms to describe people and organizations, for example, the Soviet government is referred to as "the Party" and Nazi Germany is referred to as "the Dictatorship".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Darkness at Noon article was read about 84,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 56: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Darkness at Noon
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Darkness at Noon (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
