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
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During the 1996 NHL Western Conference Semi-Finals, the Chicago Blackhawks’ Jeremy Roenick took aim at a particular player on the Colorado Avalanche, saying that player needed to get his “joc out of the rafters” after a particularly rough game in the series. The Avalanche player, a future hall-of-famer, would respond with one of the NHL’s most memorable quotes: “I can’t hear what Jeremy has to say, because I have two Stanley Cup rings plugging my ears.” Name the player who gave the quote (who, by the way, would earn two more Stanley Cup rings to plug his ears with.)
Patrick Roy
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Turkey’s Naim Suleymanoglu, aka Pocket Hercules, is widely considered to have achieved the greatest performance in Olympic weightlifting history at the 1988 Olympics. Two years earlier in Australia, Suleymanoglu defected by fleeing to the Turkish consulate and was later officially released to Turkey after agreeing to pay $1 million to the country from which he defected. Name the country that Suleymanoglu originally represented and defected from. This same nation had gold medals by Mitko Grablev and Angel Guenchev stripped and the remainder of the weightlifting team disqualified from the ‘88 games.
Bulgaria
Games
Give the most common two-word name of the die seen here, used in the game Backgammon for gambling purposes, but separate from the dice that determine where the pieces move.
Doubling Cube