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
Country Club
Give either the last name (pre-marriage) of the American woman who won the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open, the one-word nickname of the baseball player who allegedly coined the phrase “hit ‘em where they ain’t,” or the first word of the anthemic ballad played at Highmark Stadium immediately after the Buffalo Bills defeated the New England Patriots in the 2021 NFL playoffs (even though the song was not technically accurate). You can also just give all three answers at the same time, in a row.
Wie, Wee, We
Uncategorized
In the 1990s, Seton Hall Preparatory School in West Orange won eight state titles in 10 years, thanks largely to the point guard play of two brothers. The elder brother graduated Stanford in 1997 as the Cardinal’s all-time leader in assists, with 780. The younger brother graduated Pitt six years later, holding the school assist record with 785. What is their shared last name?
Knight
Basketball
Prudence Crandall (1803-1890) was an American schoolteacher who ran the first school for black girls in the U.S. in the northeastern town of Canterbury. In 1995, she was named by the state general assembly as the “Official Heroine” of her state. In 2009, a state senator nominated another woman for the same position—a native of Chino, CA who, at that point, was spending her time between Phoenix and Moscow. Name her.
Diana Taurasi