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
Olympics
Name the swimmer, whose last name, in a bizarre coincidence, is a homonym for a Greek water nymph, who allegedly swam 110 miles from Cuba to Key West in 2013, and had her achievement memorialized this year in a film starring Annette Bening. Her swim has never been ratified due to incomplete records and conflicting accounts from crew members, and the Guinness Book of World records eventually revoked her swim.
Diana Nyad
Uncategorized
The Washington Nationals' presidents race features the four presidents who appear on Mount Rushmore, but three other president costumes have also appeared over the years. Name any of those three.
William Howard Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover
Baseball
Fill in the blank with the name of the former MLB coach described in this paragraph from the Albany Herald: “There are two things about ____ ____ that have been a part of his life since before he can remember: baseball and the incessant need to rock.”
Leo Mazzone