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
Football
"Willy B” served as the home field for the ESU Timberwolves in the quality 1993 motion picture, “The Program.” Which SEC school plays its home games on “Willy B?"
University of South Carolina
Olympics
In 1968, long before he became a famous television announcer, Brent Musberger was a writer for the Chicago American. That year, he wrote a column decrying “a couple of black-skinned storm troopers,” referring to them as “ignoble,” “juvenile,” and “unimaginative.” Name either of the men he was writing about.
Tommie Smith, John Carlos
Hockey
Give the four words that complete the Rodney Dangerfield joke seen below. It seems that Dangerfield popularized, rather than invented, the joke; three years before he delivered the line, the same four words appeared in the first line of a Chicago Tribune article: "A _____ ______ _____ _____ at the fights Wednesday night at the Stadium, but few customers objected to the change in agenda."
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"hockey game broke out."