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
Racing & Combat
When Bret Hart wrestled Shawn Michaels on Nov. 9, 1997, he had only weeks left on his WWF contract and had already signed a deal with the WCW. The script that night called for Hart to win the match against Michaels, but when Michaels put Hart in a sharpshooter hold, the referee indicated that Hart submitted, and Vince McMahon forced the ring crew to announce that Michaels had won. Hart, possibly breaking character, rampaged around the ring and later punched McMahon in the locker room. This outcome is now referred to as what?
The Montreal Screwjob
Racing & Combat
Give the five-letter word that is defined by the FIA as follows: “Road competition with an imposed average speed run entirely or partly on roads open to normal traffic…the route may include one or several special stages, i.e. events organised on roads closed to normal traffic.”
Rally
Uncategorized
Roberto Clemente, on the other hand, is perhaps the best-known ballplayer to have died tragically young, famously perishing when his plane crashed en route to Nicaragua to deliver supplies to earthquake victims on New Year's Eve, 1972. One of Clemente's Pirates teammates, who was playing winter ball in Puerto Rico at the time, was supposed to be on the flight to Managua as well, but reportedly "missed the plane because he had misplaced his car keys." Name this three-time 1970s all-star catcher and native of Panama, known best in recent days as a ballpark BBQ proprietor.
Manny Sanguillen