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
Obscure
In the 2022 women’s World Cup of cricket in New Zealand, all four semi-finalists were from different continents (and none were the host country). One team was an island nation, one team was a country that is part of a larger island nation, one team consisted of multiple island nations, and one team was not an island nation. Name any two.
Australia, West Indies, England, South Africa
Uncategorized
In 1974 in Lowell, Michigan, Scott McNeal and his brother Mitch pulled 18 friends together to play a 3-on-3 basketball tournament for $18. Since that time, the concept has expanded to include over 1,000 tournaments around the world, all bearing what name, the alias Scott made up for the original tournament?
Gus Macker
Racing & Combat
Previously an afterthought in the American game console market, Sega made huge headway against Nintendo with the launch of the Genesis in 1989. A marketing campaign tweaking Nintendo helped, as Sega claimed “Genesis does what Nintendon’t”. With that goal of challenging, mocking, and beating Nintendo in mind, it made sense for Sega to put out a 1990 boxing game named after this boxer - after all, Nintendo’s best boxing game starred Mike Tyson. Name the star of Sega’s “Knock Out Boxing”.
Buster Douglas