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
Olympics
The most famous (and disastrous) prediction ever made by Gary Hall Jr. was posted on his personal blog in 2000, and is usually summarized in a single sentence containing a simile. What is the last word of the sentence?
Guitars
Soccer
Alberto J. Armando and Antonio V. Liberti are the namesakes of stadiums (about 15 km apart) that are home to two massive rivals in the world of club soccer. Name both clubs.
Boca Juniors, River Plate
Baseball
After Chase Utley fractured the right leg of Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada in the 2015 MLB playoffs, the San Francisco Chronicle’s Henry Schulman wrote a column wondering why there wasn’t as much outrage three years earlier, in the NLCS, when another player took out Marco Scutaro with a similar slide, eventually resulting in Scutaro having to leave the game. Name the sliding player in this earlier incident.
Matt Holliday