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
What temporally appropriate word is spelled by taking the first letter of the franchise nickname of the following championship teams, in order:
NBA 1999-2000
NHL 1995-96
MLB 1997
NFL 1998-99
LAMB
Baseball
In September 1948, a short poem by Boston Herald sports editor Gerald V. Hern was adapted into a pithy epigram: “______ and ______ and pray for rain.” Name either of the Boston Braves pitchers who fill out the first part of the rhyming phrase.
Warren Spahn, Jonny Sain
Uncategorized
In 2016, ESPN carried out a win-probability based analysis to rank the 15 most impactful plays in Super Bowl history to that point. Unsurprisingly, Plaxico Burress’ game-winning touchdown in Super Bowl XLII made the list. Perhaps more surprisingly, so did the play immediately prior to Burress’ catch—a 12-yard reception on 3rd-and-11 by what other Giants wide receiver? He didn’t win the Super Bowl MVP for his effort, but his immediate family does have one such award to their name.
Steve Smith