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
Uncategorized
Though Larry Doby was the American League's first Black player after integration, he was not the first in that league to hit a home run. That distinction belongs to a powerful outfielder who frequently led the Negro American League in RBIs and slugging percentage during the 1930s and '40s. Racism, including from teammates, marred the slugger's brief stint with the AL's St. Louis Browns, and he was released after only 21 games, but he subsequently returned to the Kansas City Monarchs and continued to mash. Later, he'd write that “the Browns couldn’t beat the Monarchs no kind of way, only if we was all asleep." Name him.
Willard Brown
Country Club
What two words double as the name of the Rochester, NY country club that has hosted three US Opens and four PGA Championships and the best-known private high school for basketball in the Blue Ridge town Mouth of Wilson, Virginia.
Oak Hill
Olympics
In 1968, long before he became a famous television announcer, Brent Musberger was a writer for the Chicago American. That year, he wrote a column decrying “a couple of black-skinned storm troopers,” referring to them as “ignoble,” “juvenile,” and “unimaginative.” Name either of the men he was writing about.
Tommie Smith, John Carlos