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
Basketball
During the 2022 NBA Finals, Celtics players wore t-shirts during warm-ups that read “We are __.” Fill in the blank with the two missing initials of the player who no longer resides in the Republic of Mordovia.
BG
Obscure
What word in cricket describes a type of delivery by a right-handed leg spin bowler in which the ball moves from left to right after it hits the ground, rather than the more typical right to left. This effect is achieved by wrist bend, and the break is similar to a screwball in baseball. In the exceptionally grainy still image below from a late ‘90s American Express commercial, Jerry Seinfeld has just used the word in question: “That was a wicked ______!”
Googly
Basketball
Of the current top 10 teams in the men’s Division 1 college basketball AP poll, only two teams boast a player who is top 10 in NCAA D1 scoring. Name either player. (Again, name the player, not the team.)
Zach Edey, RJ Davis