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
Racing & Combat
Miami, Florida (May 7), Austin, Texas (Oct. 22), and Las Vegas, Nevada (Nov. 18) are the three American cities scheduled to host what specific type of event in 2023? This marks the first time the U.S. has hosted three such events in the same year since 1982.
F1 Race
Basketball
Which of the following universities is *not* a member of the Philadelphia “Big 5,” a group which competes each season for the city basketball championship: Villanova, LaSalle, Drexel, University of Pennsylvania, Temple, St. Joseph’s.
Drexel
Baseball
In the 2012 AL MVP race, Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera was the clear traditional favorite, and took the prize with 22 of 28 first-place votes. However, a heated debate played out in baseball media because another player—a rookie—led Cabrera by a significant margin in a comprehensive sabermetric stat recently implemented on sites like Fangraphs (2008) and Baseball-Reference (2010). Name the player AND the statistic.
Mike Trout, WAR (Wins Above Replacement)