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
Games
The woman many consider to be the strongest female chess player of all-time was born in Budapest, Hungary, became a grandmaster at age 15 (breaking a record set by Bobby Fischer, which was later broken by her countryman Peter Leko), and was the first woman to be ranked inside the top ten of all chess players. Unlike her sister Susan, she has never played in a woman’s championship, in part because her father considered women-only tournaments a form of discrimination. Name her.
Judit Polgar
Olympics
The Calgary Olympics marked just the third time that back-to-back Olympic Games — Summer followed by Winter, or vice versa — were both hosted in North America. Name the year and host cities of either of the other two instances.
1932 Lake Placid (Winter) & Los Angeles (Summer); 1976 Montréal (Summer) & 1980 Lake Placid (Winter)
Uncategorized
One New Jersey hoops legend who did stay home was a sweet-shooting forward out of Cranford High School, who set the single-game college scoring record at Madison Square Garden in 1977 while leading the nation in multiple offensive categories at Montclair State. Name this 1994 inductee into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, who was also enshrined in the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame that same year.
Carol Blazejowski