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
Soccer
There is only one club in English soccer that has achieved the surprising feat of winning the European Cup (the continental club competition established in 1955 that is today known as UEFA Champions League) more times than the highest English domestic league. That club captured the European Cup in 1979 and 1980 under Brian Clough (having won the league in 1978) and are currently in third-to-last place in the English Premier League table in their first year back since 1999. Name the club.
Nottingham Forest
Basketball
What player, a controversial omission from the NBA All-Star Game after leading fan voting among guards in the East, is lapping the field in one-legged three-point attempts in the NBA in 2024-25? According to a January post he had 52 such attempts (and was making 40% of them) while Trae Young was second with 7.
LaMelo Ball
Uncategorized
COVER
Compared to the “Madden Curse,” the evidence for an SI “cover jinx” is statistically uncompelling. But it’s fun to argue about examples and counter-examples. One cover subject saw a dramatic change in his professional fortunes just a few weeks after fronting the July 8, 1974 issue. Name this cover boy, whom SI had photographed at the Kemper Open in June. Not for nothing, contemporary Americans are more likely to associate him with the sport of golf than with his stellar collegiate football career.
Gerald Ford