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
Olympics
In the high jump, techniques known as “straddle,” “scissors jump,” “eastern cut-off,” and “western roll” have been almost entirely replaced at the highest competitive levels by a technique named after what 1968 gold medal winner?
Dick Fosbury
Country Club
“There is only one player alive who not only has held the original claret jug but took it home with him. That would be ___________.” Fill in the blank from a Golf Digest article with the name of the 5-time winner of The Open Championship in golf, who, after his 1982 victory at Royal Troon, was accidentally given the original claret jug to bring home, instead of the usual replica. The article goes on to tell the story of this golfer and the claret jug, which involved a practice swing in the home office, a dent, and a vice.
Tom Watson
Olympics
A Moroccan waiter named Ahmed Bouchiki—wrongly believed to be a different man named Ali Hassan Salameh—was killed in July 1973 by foreign agents in a European town with a population of less than 30,000 people. This assassination came in response to events that took place the previous September in a European city with a population of more than a million people. In 1994, these two locations would become permanently linked in history by sports alone. Name both locations.
(Note: It’s not necessary to name the country in either case.)
Lillehammer, Munich