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John Updike, a Rare card
John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 85
- Power
- 169
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 230,000
Power 169 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
John Updike quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the John Updike card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He also wrote regularly for The New York ______ of Books.
Answer
Review. He also wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books. From the John Updike article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker starting in ____.
Answer
1950s. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker starting in 1954. From the John Updike article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 88 · John Updike 84 · Casey Neistat 81 · Blue Mosque, Istanbul 73 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.
- One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than 20 novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism, and children's books during his career.
- Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker starting in 1954.
- He also wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The John Updike 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 85: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get John Updike
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, John Updike (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
