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
Soccer
Give the name of the most successful soccer club based in Rio de Janeiro, with 10 Brazilian championships in its long history. Despite sounding very much like the name of a bird, the club’s name stems from a nearby beach named for the invaders in an 1599. (The invading party was actually Dutch, but they were known in Brazil by another ethnic name.)
Flamengo
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
Baseball
In a game played in late March 2023, Shota Imanaga picked up the win with two innings pitched while Munetaka Murakami and Kazuma Okamoto homered for the winning team. Name the losing team.
United States