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
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You can't go up and down the Thruway without learning about the old New York-Penn League. Several cities along the I-90 Corridor used to boast a team, but unfortunately, the league folded in 2020 after Rome native Rob Manfred's quest to streamline (or destroy, depending on who you talk to) minor league baseball. However, in the 2010s, quite a few of these former New York-Penn homes found new life in the summer collegiate ranks, giving aspiring pro baseball players a chance to be seen by scouts and hopefully, someday, make the big leagues. In 2011, which scouting company created its own league, which celebrated its tenth season in 2021? Twelve of the current sixteen franchises had New York-Penn League ties, including final holdouts Auburn and Batavia, who finally joined the league in 2020 after the NY-P folded.
Perfect Game or Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League
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Pete Maravich has the highest per-game scoring average in college basketball history at 44.2ppg, but the year after Maravich was drafted into the NBA another SEC gunner challenged his record. Johnny Neumann played 1 season of college basketball, averaging 40.1ppg in 1970-71 and earning All-American honors. He utilized the new “hardship clause” to turn professional and signed with his hometown Memphis Pros in the ABA. He never carved out the pro career expected of him, but at least he didn’t have to travel far as he attended which college less than 1.5 hours from Memphis?
Ole Miss
Olympics
The United States has won a gold medal in every Olympic games, but in four different winter games, they were held to just one. Who was the lone gold medalist for the Americans at the 1968 Grenoble games? This person not only secured gold for her country, but brought U.S. figure skating back to prominence following a devastating 1961 plane crash that killed the entire team. After the Olympics, she went on to commentate for ABC Sports for more than 20 years, and is still alive today.
Peggy Fleming