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
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Sample Questions

Soccer

Victory (Escape to Victory in the UK)

John Huston’s 1981 film about a soccer match between during World War II between Allied prisoners-of-war and German camp guards was loosely based on a real match that occurred in 1942. Although the film’s version of events took several liberties with history, Huston was able to generate authenticity by using real soccer players, including Pele, Bobby Moore, Ossie Ardiles, and USMNT captain Werner Roth. Also featuring were several current players from one of England’s top clubs, which that year finished second in England’s First Division, and then won the UEFA Cup. Name this club, which under coach Alf Ramsey had famously won the 1961-1962 First Division title immediately after being promoted from the Second Division.

Ipswich Town

Soccer

Teams called Angel City, San Diego Wave, Racing Louisville, Chicago Red Stars, and Washington Spirit have had the no. 1 pick at some point in the last decade in the draft for what league?

NWSL

Obscure

Famed architect Alvar Aalto's freeform and curved-bottom design of what type of installation at the Villa Mairea in 1939 became incredibly influential in the history of skateboarding, because it was often imitated in Southern California?

Swimming Pool