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Don DeLillo, a Rare card
Donald Richard DeLillo is an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and essayist.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 80
- Power
- 164
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 230,000
Power 164 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Don DeLillo quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Don DeLillo card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He followed this in 1988 with Libra, a novel about the ______ of John F. Kennedy.
Answer
assassination. He followed this in 1988 with Libra, a novel about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. From the Don DeLillo article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
DeLillo was already a well-regarded cult writer in ____, when the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and the National Book Award for fiction.
Answer
1980s. DeLillo was already a well-regarded cult writer in 1985, when the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and the National Book Award for fiction. From the Don DeLillo article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Don DeLillo. Don DeLillo 84 · Uri Geller 81 · Maximilian Schell 77 · Vulcan 74 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.
- His works have covered subjects as diverse as consumerism, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, television, the advent of the Digital Age, mathematics, politics, economics, and sports.
- DeLillo was already a well-regarded cult writer in 1985, when the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and the National Book Award for fiction.
- He followed this in 1988 with Libra, a novel about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Don DeLillo article was read about 230,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 80: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Don DeLillo
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Don DeLillo (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Thousand Robots Thousandrobots ( talk )., CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
