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
The 2008 men’s 4x100 freestyle relay has been called “the greatest relay in Olympic history”. Before the race, one athlete was quoted as saying "The Americans? We're going to smash them. That’s what we came here for." This turned out to be a freezing cold take, as Jason Lezak of Team USA came back against this athlete on the anchor leg to take gold and smash the world record. What heavily favored nation took second to the USA in this race?
France
Uncategorized
Speaking of men my wife has called attractive, Brad Stevens was on the sidelines in 2011 when Matt Howard hit a buzzer beater for his Butler Bulldogs as they advanced past the second round in what would be a second straight finals run. But he wasn’t on the sidelines in 2000, when Butler was on the wrong side of a first-round buzzer beater (he would become a volunteer the next season). Who hit the shot that killed the Butler?
Mike Miller
Baseball
Complete this quote from Steve Rushin's reminiscence in a 2001 SI column, describing a logo: "Two fat identical twins, in baseball uniforms, shaking hands across the Mississippi River. As a child, I assumed that both men - kindly, giant, lumpen - were" what 13-time American League All-Star?
Harmon Killebrew