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
Hockey
Sid Abel and Alex Delvecchio were centers on the NHL forward line known as the "Production Line" in reference to its city's manufacturing output. Name either of the wingers that made up the other members of this line, at least until Frank Mahovlich came along.
Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay
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)
Basketball
A proposed new ending for basketball games seeks to end the tyranny of intentional fouls by turning off the game clock at a specific point—under four minutes left in the fourth quarter, for example—and for a “winning score” to be established by adding a set number of points to the leading team’s score, which both teams would then try to reach. At the behest of Chris Paul, the NBA has used a modified version of this idea in its last two All-Star games. Name the Ball State professor (no relation to any former NFL kickers) for whom this concept is named.
Nick Elam