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
On May 9, 1999, in a game against Maryland, this Florida State second baseman authored one of the most absurd single-game stat lines in baseball history. After starting the day with a single, he proceeded to hit 6 consecutive home runs in his next 6 at-bats, finishing the day with 6 home runs, 16 RBIs, and 25 total bases, which are all still single-game records. He’d go on to be an All-American and win Most Outstanding Player at the College World Series that year. Name this player.
Marshall McDougall
Racing & Combat
Name the pallbearer at Joe Louis' funeral who was known to send Louis money in his later years, and helped finance the funeral itself. Among other impressive deeds, this man saved the lives of two Jewish children in 1938 by hiding them in his Berlin hotel room.
Max Schmeling
Soccer
Carolina Morace—a current member of the European Parliament—debuted for the Italian women’s national soccer team at age 14 in 1978, and 13 years later became the first player to score a hat trick in the Women’s World Cup. But she is probably best known for what other soccer first, achieved with club team Viterbese in 1999?
First woman to coach a professional men’s soccer team