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
There are only two NHL franchises that have been located in an American state that borders Canada, and also in an American state that borders Mexico. One was the California Golden Seals, a team that became the Cleveland Barons before going defunct. The other franchise that meets this criteria dropped a single word from its nickname when they relocated. What was that word?
North (Minnesota North Stars ---> Dallas Stars)
Basketball
In the history of NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball, California has been the home state of 15 championships—11 by UCLA, 2 by San Francisco, and one each by Cal and Stanford. There are five states that have been home to exactly two national championships. In two of those cases (Florida and Oklahoma), the championships came from the same university winning twice. In the other three cases, two different schools won once each, and the championships were separated by 36, 53, and 55 years, respectively. Name any one of those three states.
New York, Wisconsin, Texas
Olympics
Name the runner who finished his college career with zero losses at the distances of three miles, 5,000 meters, six miles, or 10,000 meters, and who nearly medaled in the 5,000m at the ‘72 Munich Olympics. He finished fourth in that event, but never got another chance.
Steve Prefontaine