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
What event did L'Annociation native Jacqueline Gareau win in 1980? She was awarded her title in May when she was able to come back to the city that hosted the event, which is usually awarded the previous month for this competition and she's often forgotten at the expense of another woman at this particular event.
Boston Marathon
Obscure
Though he did not compete at the same Olympics as Johnny Weissmuller, what was the pop-culture derived moniker by which Native American marathon runner Ellison Brown (1989, 2001) was best known?
Tarzan
Football
The YouTube archives of Stump the Schwab only contain so many episodes. And the Schwab is the Schwab for a reason – he didn’t get a lot of questions wrong! So we need to go outside the show for our final question, which comes from a later ESPN interview with the Schwab. In that interview, he’s asked to name the first two black football players in the NFL, who both played in the 1920 debut season. Schwab could not give an answer for either one. One was a future Hall of Fame coach and player for the Akron Pros; the other was a multi-sport star from Minnesota. Name either man.
Fritz Pollard OR Bobby Marshall