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
Hockey
Since the first official gold medal game in men’s Olympic hockey in 1992 (prior to that, various round robin systems were used), three gold medal games have gone to overtime (1994, 2010, 2018). Name any player who scored a goal for the losing teams in the 1994 and 2010 games—penalty shootout goals included.
Paul Kariya, Derek Mayer, Petr Nedved (Canada, 1994), Ryan Kesler, Zach Parise (United States, 2010)
Basketball
There have been three Serbian players in NBA history who have made at least one All-Star Game appearance, one of whom is active and one of whom is in the Hall of Fame. Curiously, unlike the other two, the Hall-of-Famer never made an All-NBA team. Name any one of these three players.
Vlade Divac, Nikola Jokic, Predrag Stojokovic
Football
On the short list of universities with Division 1 FBS football programs whose main campuses are within 25 miles of each other geographically (as the crow flies), the three schools in North Carolina’s research triangle qualify, as do the Los Angeles-based pair of USC and UCLA. Name any other pair of schools that meet this criteria. (Note: Your answer should include two schools.)
Rice/Houston, UM/EMU, Akron/Kent State, FIU/Miami, SJSU/Stanford, Toledo/BGU, Maryland/Navy, Georgia Tech/GSU, and will check any others guessed