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
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It was quite a reversal for this particular team, because a round earlier they had won on a true buzzer beater of their own, sending the 5-seed Clemson packing. The player who hit it went on to spend three years with the New Jersey Nets in an unremarkable NBA career. Name him.
Tate George
Racing & Combat
Robert Redford’s character in Downhill Racer (1969) was modeled on the brash Buddy Werner, who died tragically in an avalanche before the movie came out. In the movie, Idaho Springs stands in for Werner’s actual Colorado hometown, _____ Springs, which boasts ties to more than 100 Olympic athletes and refers to itself as “Ski Town USA.” Fill in the blank.
Steamboat
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The March 14th, 2001 edition of On the Record with Bob Costas wound up being a particularly juicy broadcast. Costas and his guest repeatedly cut each other off, culminating the guest at one point leaning towards Costas, pointing his finger in his face, and telling him to “shut his mouth and let me answer the question.” The interview fell into the spotlight again in 2017 after being featured in an ESPN 30 for 30 episode, and again in 2021 when a book quoted the guest as saying he would have beaten Costas up if he wasn’t “5-feet high and 140 pounds.” Who was Costas’s infamous guest?
Vince McMahon