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
Baseball
Today is a THEME DAY. Theme days can be overt, or they can be subtle and connected, in such a way that figuring out the theme may help you answer the questions.
Name the blunt, occasionally profane, rangy pitcher who finished his MLB career (1960-1967) with a 20-22 record, and who later managed the Phillies to a World Series title en route to compiling a .487 winning percentage as a manager with the Phillies, Yankees, and Mets.
Dallas Green
Olympics
There are three nations that have won a single gold medal, and no other medal of any kind, in the history of the summer Olympics. Interestingly, all three golds came at the 2016 Games in Brazil, where a judoka from Kosovo and a Taekwondo fighter from Jordan both won gold. The third historic gold medal came in a team event. Which nation won that medal?
Fiji (Men's Rugby Sevens)
Uncategorized
SIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE
You could never write this stuff. Week after week, SI’s Sign of the Apocalypse prefigured the internet’s addictions to irony and hyperbole. What place name–which claims Windsor, Nova Scotia as a sister city–completes the sentence below?
Sign of the Apocalypse: November 20, 1995
________ officials recently rejected a minor league baseball franchise on the grounds that the city is “really not a baseball town, per se.”
Cooperstown