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
Uncategorized
During the 1996 NHL Western Conference Semi-Finals, the Chicago Blackhawks’ Jeremy Roenick took aim at a particular player on the Colorado Avalanche, saying that player needed to get his “joc out of the rafters” after a particularly rough game in the series. The Avalanche player, a future hall-of-famer, would respond with one of the NHL’s most memorable quotes: “I can’t hear what Jeremy has to say, because I have two Stanley Cup rings plugging my ears.” Name the player who gave the quote (who, by the way, would earn two more Stanley Cup rings to plug his ears with.)
Patrick Roy
Games
“I come not, friends, to steal away your ____.” This quote, delivered by Mark Antony in Act III, Scene II of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, also appeared in a game offered on early versions of Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Fill in the blank with the missing word, which is also the name of the game itself.
Hearts
Football
The nonfiction book 'Friday Night Lights,' written by H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger, chronicles the 1988 season of a Texas high school football team known as the Panthers. In the subsequent NBC TV series, the school’s “Panther” mascot stayed the same, but the name of the Texas town and the high school were both changed to the fictional “Dillon.” Name either the city or high school where the real Panthers played.
Odessa, Permian High