WikiCards
Play on iPhone nowFree in Safari. Add it to your Home Screen.Play
WikiCards · Card list · Arts cards · Nighthawks
Rare card · Arts
Nighthawks, a Rare card
Nighthawks is a 1942 oil on canvas painting by the American artist Edward Hopper that portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night, as viewed through the diner's large glass window.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 71
- Power
- 140
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 460,000
Power 140 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Nighthawks quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Nighthawks card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The light coming from the diner illuminates a ______ and deserted urban streetscape.
Answer
darkened. The light coming from the diner illuminates a darkened and deserted urban streetscape. From the Nighthawks article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Nighthawks is a ____ oil on canvas painting by the American artist Edward Hopper that portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night, as viewed through the diner's large glass window.
Answer
1940s. Nighthawks is a 1942 oil on canvas painting by the American artist Edward Hopper that portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night, as viewed through the diner's large glass window. From the Nighthawks article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Jack Palance. Jack Palance 78 · Alan Thicke 75 · Osiris 72 · Nighthawks 69 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.
- The light coming from the diner illuminates a darkened and deserted urban streetscape.
- The painting has been described as Hopper's best-known work and is one of the most recognizable paintings in American art.
- Classified as part of the American Realism movement, within months of its completion, it was sold to the Art Institute of Chicago for $3,000.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Nighthawks article was read about 460,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 71: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Nighthawks
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.
More Arts cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Nighthawks in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Martin LandauEpic · Arts · ATK 71 DEF 69
- OsirisEpic · Arts · ATK 72 DEF 68
- Jack PalanceEpic · History · ATK 78 DEF 62
- Rachel GriffithsRare · Arts · ATK 73 DEF 67
- The School of AthensRare · Arts · ATK 69 DEF 71
- AconcaguaRare · Nature · ATK 71 DEF 69
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Arts cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Nighthawks (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Edward Hopper, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
