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
Baseball
Among the derogatory nicknames attached to major leaguer Dick Stuart, a powerful hitter and inept fielder, were “stone fingers,” “Ancient Mariner” (“he stoppeth one of three”), and another that came about in 1964 thanks, in a way, to Stanley Kubrick. What was that nickname?
Dr. Strangeglove
Racing & Combat
Despite overlapping careers, the boxers who held the 10th and 12th World Boxing Organization heavyweight championships never fought each other due to a mutual promise. Name either fighter. (Last name is sufficient.)
Klitschko, Wladimir or Vitali
Games
What Japanese word for "hit a target" means (a) a situation in the board game Go where a stone will be able to be captured on the next move, and (b) a company founded by Nolan Bushnell?
Atari