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Uncommon card · History
John Cheever, an Uncommon card
John William Cheever was an American short story writer and novelist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 56
- Power
- 132
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Power 132 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
John Cheever quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the John Cheever card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the ______".
Answer
suburbs. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". From the John Cheever article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
John Cheever. John Cheever 76 · Operation Uphold Democracy 73 · Pella 70 · Legio IX Hispana 67 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.
- He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs".
- His fiction is mostly set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born, and Italy, especially Rome.
- His short stories included "The Enormous Radio", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Country Husband", and "The Swimmer", and he also wrote five novels: The Wapshot Chronicle, The Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park, Falconer and a novella, Oh What a Paradise It Seems.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The John Cheever article was read about 150,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 56: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get John Cheever
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 John Cheever in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Film scoreUncommon · Arts · ATK 77 DEF 55
- Frank McCourtUncommon · History · ATK 69 DEF 63
- Giant isopodUncommon · Nature · ATK 66 DEF 66
- Legio IX HispanaUncommon · History · ATK 67 DEF 65
- LeveeUncommon · Nature · ATK 71 DEF 61
- Matt SerraUncommon · Arts · ATK 72 DEF 60
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, John Cheever (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Wernerr Wolff, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
