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
Soccer
The 26-man England roster for Euro '24 includes just two players representing professional teams outside England. The teams are Bayern Munich and Real Madrid. Name either player.
Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham
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Pete Maravich has the highest per-game scoring average in college basketball history at 44.2ppg, but the year after Maravich was drafted into the NBA another SEC gunner challenged his record. Johnny Neumann played 1 season of college basketball, averaging 40.1ppg in 1970-71 and earning All-American honors. He utilized the new “hardship clause” to turn professional and signed with his hometown Memphis Pros in the ABA. He never carved out the pro career expected of him, but at least he didn’t have to travel far as he attended which college less than 1.5 hours from Memphis?
Ole Miss
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Remember Zelmo Beaty? Already a two-time NBA all-star when he defected to the ABA in 1969, Beaty’s 13-year career between the two leagues earned him Basketball Hall of Fame induction in 2016. Though the words “Remember Zelmo Beaty” now function as a signoff for the Slate sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, they were initially spoken as an on-air challenge to Shaquille O’Neal by which well-known television personality? The tv personality in question is closely associated with the city where the ABA held its 30-year anniversary reunion in 1997.
David Letterman