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
Soccer
“______ ______ on the shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming
Thirty years of hurt
Never stopped us dreaming…”
These lyrics come from a song released in 1996, and while the singers expressed optimism, the “thirty years” could now be accurately changed to “fifty years”...and then some. Fill in the blanks with the two words missing from the line quoted above.
Three Lions
Uncategorized
In 2014, a minor-league promotion went wrong for Bakersfield, California ECHL team when a bird named Queen Victoria got loose on the ice and eventually made her way into the locker room. What species of bird was Queen Victoria?
Condor
Olympics
Triggered by a global conflict, a record 66 countries boycotted the Summer Olympics in what year? The host nation would end up boycotting the subsequent Summer Olympics.
1980