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
Olympics
A long 2023 L.A. Times feature on a legendary L.A.-based 69-year-old track coach—formerly the head coach of UCLA—oddly doesn’t mention, even once, his wife, who has won three Olympic gold medals and is considerably more famous. Who is the coach? (Be careful not to name his brother-in-law.)
Bob Kersee
Hockey
Major championship fights including Dempsey-Firpo and Dempsey-Tunney were promoted in the 1920s by what man, whose nickname also gave rise to the New York Rangers' team name when he was president of Madison Square Garden?
Tex Rickard
Uncategorized
"The Great One" had a great enforcer as well. Wayne Gretzky's early years in Edmonton were off the charts and he was helped by a teammate who was coined his "bodyguard." This left winger won two Stanley Cups with the Oilers as he protected Gretzky. In June 1983, this "goon" took on Muhammad Ali in a charity boxing match. Name him.
Dave Semenko