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Epic card · Arts
Joan Didion, an Epic card
Joan Didion was an American writer and journalist.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 85
- Power
- 164
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 690,000
Power 164 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Joan Didion quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Joan Didion card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest ______ by Vogue magazine.
Answer
sponsored. Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine. From the Joan Didion article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kamaru Usman. Kamaru Usman 87 · Andy Kaufman 84 · Joan Didion 79 · Gene Tierney 76 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.
- She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe.
- Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine.
- She went on to publish essays in The Saturday Evening Post, National Review, Life, Esquire, The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Joan Didion article was read about 690,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 85: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Joan Didion
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 Joan Didion in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Gene TierneyEpic · Arts · ATK 76 DEF 88
- Rosh HashanahEpic · Society · ATK 77 DEF 87
- Human bodyEpic · Science · ATK 78 DEF 86
- SupertrampEpic · Arts · ATK 77 DEF 87
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Joan Didion (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Kathleen Ballard, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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