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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
Football
A private social and sports organization located at 20 West St. in lower Manhattan operated from 1926 to 2002, and became known starting in 1935 for bestowing an annual award named after one of the club's founding members. (Today, the award is distributed by a trust.) Give the (three) initials of this (three-word) organization, AND the last name of the founding member.
DAC Heisman
Obscure
What chaotic, fictional “sport” was described in one academic paper as a "constant connecting and disconnecting of parts, the constant evasion of rules or guidelines based on collective creativity." It has included, per the sport's Wiki, the following elements: Soccer balls, flags, masks, numbered signs, songs, croquet mallets, an "invisible sector," a hobby horse, shuttlecocks, a volleyball, buckets, sacks, water balloons, "vortex spots," and "time-fracture wickets."
Calvinball
Soccer
In the decade of the 1980s (from ‘79-’80 to ‘88-’89), Liverpool’s Ian Rush led England's top domestic soccer league in scoring one season (‘84) and came close on several other occasions. But the only player to lead the league in goals twice that decade did so with Leicester in ‘84-’85 and again with Everton in ‘85-’86. He’d do it once more in ‘89-’90, this time with Tottenham, and he became a famous broadcaster after retirement. Name him.
Gary Lineker