The trivia league taking a broken world by storm.
What is AST?
- A head-to-head daily sports trivia division
- 12-day "Fortnights" occurring at least 6 times per year
- Matches Monday through Friday only
- Twenty-four hours to answer five questions
- Defensive strategy to stymie your opponent
- Promotion/relegation from one Fortnight to the next
Sample Questions
Games
According to certain Internet sources, “quoits, sandy table” is an alternative name for what game? Please note that the game in question bears relatively little resemblance to quoits, and actually contains a far more accurate comparison in its most common name.
Table Shuffleboard (bar shuffleboard, indoor shuffleboard, American shuffleboard, shufflepuck, slingers all accepted)
Uncategorized
A four-month court battle over the finishing order of the 1981 race, which resulted from whether the top finishers illegally passed cars under a yellow flag, might have been avoided if the Speedway had continued to employ what visual system of enforcing speed limits that was used from 1972-1978? The short-lived system might live on in the minds of some other Indiana sports fans.
Electro-Pacer Lights
Olympics
Juan Antonio Samaranch, the president of the International Olympic Committee from 1980 to 2001 (taking office after the Moscow summer games in ‘80), traditionally called each successive Olympics the “best ever” at his closing address. He withheld this praise only once—which host city failed to earn the designation?
Atlanta, Georgia