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
The seminal board game Risk, which came out in 1957, spawned many other games of diplomacy and world conquest, including a World War II strategy franchise whose original game came out in 1984. This game, which now includes more than ten spinoffs, went by the title _____ & ______. Give both words that fill in the blanks.
Axis, Allies
Football
Bill Parcells is probably the most famous footballer associated with this school, which discontinued its football program in 1986—but he has competition from a fictional coach, whose last name is a much better geographic fit for the university than “Big Tuna” and who parlayed his success into a radical career change.
Wichita State
Basketball
What UCLA basketball star was the first Black person to win a Nobel Prize, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950?
Ralph Bunche