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
Basketball
Only twice in NBA history has a game ended on a buzzer beater in a winner-take-all playoff game—once in 1989 in Game 5 of the first round, and once in 2019 in Game 7 of the conference semifinals. Name the defender who was closest to the ball at the time of the winning shot in both games. (Your answer should consist of two names.)
Craig Ehlo, Joel Embiid
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
Uncategorized
Some curling equipment manufacturers are named after the family that founded them, like Asham or Olson. Strangely, two of the sport’s major manufacturers both have 8-letter names, and both end in “line”. Name either of the two 4-letter words that complete the 8-letter company names.
Hard OR Gold