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
Football
NFL great Howie Long is dramatically kicked through the wooden wall of a boxcar, out of a moving train, off a bridge by what actor in the 1996 action film Broken Arrow?
Christian Slater
Uncategorized
At the turn of the 20th century, this word came to be associated with the "spirit" of gentlemanly amateurism (despite the fact that there's ample evidence of professional athletics in ancient Greece). It is still present in modern sports in the name of one of Brazil's most successful soccer teams, itself named after a London-based club who popularized the sport of soccer around the world with tours in the early 20th century (tours made necessary because the club's commitment to amateurism forced it out of FA competition). What is that word?
Corinthian
Hockey
David E. Kelley, the son of U.S. hockey Hall of Famer Jack Kelley, took inspiration for his 1999 script Mystery, Alaska from an unsuccessful 1905 Stanley Cup challenge. A small gold-rush mining town in the Canadian Yukon, Dawson City sent its scrappy team of irregulars 4,000 miles by bike, dog sled, ship, train and foot to challenge the reigning Stanley Cup champs that year. They were dispatched in two games by a combined score of 32-4. Give the winning club’s two-word, metallic nickname OR the name with which it joined the NHL 12 years later.
Silver Seven or Ottawa Senators