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
Hockey
When the International Ice Hockey Federation chose its centennial all-star team, the third-highest vote getter—just behind Slava Fetisov and Wayne Gretzky—was a goaltender with three Olympic gold medals (and one notable silver, in which he was pulled in the first period in a critical game) who is now the president of the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia. Name him.
Vladislav Tretiak
Soccer
Nicknamed “El Pibe” (the kid), which player is third among most-capped players for the Colombian national team? He scored exactly one goal in the World Cup, against the United Arab Emirates in 1990.
Carlos Valderrama
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