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
Obscure
Give the NFL franchise nickname that would fit best in the following list: Laser, Nacra, Finn, RS Vareo, Heron, Tasar, International Fireball, Flying Junior.
49ers (As dinghy class sailing vessels, Dolphins, Buccaneers, and Jets will also be accepted)
Olympics
In the high jump, techniques known as “straddle,” “scissors jump,” “eastern cut-off,” and “western roll” have been almost entirely replaced at the highest competitive levels by a technique named after what 1968 gold medal winner?
Dick Fosbury
Hockey
In 1979, a boycott of Molson Breweries in three major Canadian cities began to spread across the country, and was so effective that it allegedly resulted in the company’s owners changing a critical (and decisive) vote in their roles as team owners. (There was also a bomb threat and bullet holes in a brewery door.) Name any one of the three cities where the boycott originated.
Winnipeg, Edmonton, Quebec City