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
Olympics
Michael Phelps leads Olympians in total gold medals with 23; a full six other athletes are tied for second with 9. Name either of the men's butterfly-and-freestyle swimmers who share that position with Katie Ledecky and Carl Lewis.
Caleb Dressel, Mark Spitz
Racing & Combat
Fill in the blank with *EITHER ONE* of the two words that complete Chic Anderson’s call of the 1973 Belmont Stakes, when Secretariat decimated the field to win the Triple Crown: “They're on the turn, and Secretariat is blazing along! The first three-quarters of a mile in 1:09 and four fifths. Secretariat is widening now! He is moving like a ________ _______!”
Tremendous, Machine
Baseball
Frank Jobe, a Greensboro, NC native who spent the bulk of his life in California, was a pioneering orthopedic surgeon who rubbed elbows with some of the biggest athletes of the day. Which athlete is he most commonly associated with today?
Tommy John