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
Olympics
Fencing points typically begin with the referee saying "en garde," then "pret," and finally beginning the point with what word (which is also heard frequently in the crowd at Francophone sporting events)?
Allez
Baseball
Among the many terms baseball borrows from the nautical world is the phrase “on deck,” which refers to the batter who is next up, and is derived from the same phrase in sailing that means “ready for action or duty” in reference to the deck of a ship. The term for the position of the batter following the on-deck batter also comes from the nautical realm, albeit with one letter changed. What is that term? (Baseball or nautical term are both acceptable.)
In the Hole/Hold
Uncategorized
What Akron St. VIncent-St. Mary HS basketball star and former Cleveland Cavalier memorably shattered a backboard with a dunk he sent in as a 21-year old?
Jerome Lane