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
Many people will tell you that Mike McDermott in Rounders (1998) was inspired by the gambling addictions of comedian Norm MacDonald. In particular, Norm may have furnished the character’s studious devotion to the “Super System,” outlined by what larger-than-life Texan known as “The Godfather of Poker”?
Doyle Brunson
Olympics
From 2009 through 2016, two men won every single gold medal—nine in total—in the coxless pair rowing event at the World Championships and Olympic Games, amassing a 69-race unbeaten streak along the way. Following their second Olympic triumph, they wrote a book that took its title from their nickname: "The _____ Pair." Fill in the blank with the missing word, which is derived from their home nation and not a fondness for actinidia deliciosa.
Kiwi
Olympics
The United States has won a gold medal in every Olympic games, but in four different winter games, they were held to just one. Who was the lone gold medalist for the Americans at the 1968 Grenoble games? This person not only secured gold for her country, but brought U.S. figure skating back to prominence following a devastating 1961 plane crash that killed the entire team. After the Olympics, she went on to commentate for ABC Sports for more than 20 years, and is still alive today.
Peggy Fleming