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
Uncategorized
In the song 'Fifty Mission Cap' by Canadian band The Tragically Hip, Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Bill Barilko is immortalized. In a grueling 5-game series in which every game went into overtime, Barilko, a stay-at-home defenseman, became an unlikely hero when he scored the Stanley Cup winning overtime goal. As the song says, he went missing in the off-season while on a fishing trip -- his float plane crashed in the woods of Ontario. The Maple Leafs, winners of Cups in 1947, 1948, 1949 and that year in 1951, didn't win the Stanley Cup again until 1962. What significant connection linked that 1962 Stanley Cup win and Barilko's death?
Barilko's body was discovered that year
Racing & Combat
After losing his trusted Honda engines for 1993, Ayrton Senna unsuccessfully pursued a drive with the Williams team, only to reluctantly return to McLaren at the 11th hour on a five-race deal after they had already announced their driver lineup for the season. Which future world champion was relegated to test driver status upon Senna's return?
Mika Hakkinen
Basketball
A well-known drill consisting of making layups with alternating hands (and on alternate sides of the hoop) is named for what man, also the first commissioner of the ABA?
George Mikan