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
Uncategorized
In 2001, the University of Massachusetts appeared in its fifth NCAA men’s semifinal in a sport that has never had a men’s or women’s national title winner from outside the State of California. Less than two years later, UMass eliminated both its men’s and women’s programs. Name the sport.
Water Polo
Obscure
The southern hemisphere’s answer to the Six Nations Rugby Championship was originally called the Tri Nations, and featured three of the world powerhouses in rugby: Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. In 2012, with the addition of a fourth southern hemisphere country (from a new continent), the name was changed to The Rugby Championship. What was the fourth country?
Argentina
Hockey
According to some historians, the first openly professional hockey team in Canada played from 1904 to 1907 as the lone Canadian team in the International Hockey League. Known informally as the “Canadian Soo,” which city did the team play in? (The American city of the same name, which lies on the opposite side of the city’s main river, has been immortalized in song by Sufjan Stevens.)
Sault Ste. Marie