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
In 1988, a prominent US brand employed a distinctively beady-eyed bull terrier as its mascot. Baseball-Reference lists that mascot’s name as the nickname of the 1988 National League Rookie of the Year winner, due to his own distinctively beady-eyed appearance. What is that nickname? (Alternatively, you may give the ballplayer’s surname.)
Spuds OR Sabo
Football
Patrick Mahomes in 2022/23 and Brock Purdy in 2023/24 (in a statistical tie) led the NFL in QBR, the comprehensive performance metric introduced by ESPN in 2006. Prior to Mahomes in 2022, who was the most recent Super Bowl starter to have led the league in QBR that season?
Matt Ryan
Uncategorized
On June 10, 1975, the Cosmos shocked the sports world by signing Brazilian legend Pele to a contract. After scoring a goal in his first match (a 2-2 draw with the Dallas Tornado), Pele was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated…but he was not the first NASL player to land that honor. Name the NASL goalkeeper who appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1973.
Bob Rigby