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
Games
What billiards technique, derived from the French word for "sledgehammer," involves hitting the cue ball at a vertical angle in order to make it follow a curved path?
Massé
Games
What two words combined make the portmanteau “jarts,” which is one name for a game that led to 6,100 ER visits in the eight years before a 1988 outright ban issued by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission? (Note that you must give the two words which form "jarts," and not a different name for this game.)
Javelin Darts
Football
In the list of current of Pac-12 and the Big Ten football teams, there are five that have not yet appeared in the Rose Bowl (at least for the next three weeks). Four of those five schools joined after 2000 (Nebraska, which played in the 1941 and 2002 Rose Bowl before joining the Big Ten, is the exception here). Name the only two of these schools with nicknames that reference humans.
Utah, Rutgers