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
On Sept. 11, 2019, the New York Times broke a story on an apparent cover-up which began in the spring of 2018 in Arcadia, CA (in a location that was once part of an 1845 land grant called Rancho Santa Anita). The story included the following line: “He tested positive for the drug scopolamine.” To which mononymic star does the “he” in that sentence refer?
Justify
Hockey
The points leader in the last two NHL regular seasons showed off his modernist home in both EDify (not a typo) Magazine and Architectural Digest, and was mocked online for its austerity, with commentators tweeting insults like “how the hell am I supposed to eat pizza rolls in that house?” and “what did colours do to offend these two?” Name the player.
Connor McDavid
Basketball
Jamal Crawford tops the list of players with the most career points in the NBA (19,419) without a single All-Star appearance. Numbers 10 and 17 on that list are a former Arizona Wildcat who made the All-Rookie second team in 2002 for the Nets, and a Mississippi native who received the same honor in 2005 for the Boston Celtics. What last name do they share?
Jefferson