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
Hockey
In the Eastern Conference Finals against the New Jersey Devils, one Rangers forward became an unlikely hero by scoring not one, but two double-overtime goals in the series. The first goal came in game 3 and the series-clinching goal in game 7. Who was this two-time double overtime hero for the Rangers, recently acquired from Chicago at the trade deadline?
Stephane Matteau
Uncategorized
At the bitterly contested 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, a supporter of arch conservative Barry Goldwater and a supporter of the more moderate Nelson Rockefeller nearly came to blows. The Goldwater supporter was held back by his wife, even while the Rocky fan, a baseball Hall of Famer, shouted "Turn him loose, lady!" Name this player, who spent the entirety of his major league career in Rockefeller's home state of New York, and said that Goldwater's nomination gave him "a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany."
Jackie Robinson
Football
In each of Troy Aikman’s three Super Bowl victories, he was backed up by a different Pro Bowl quarterback who won just the one ring. One of these backups made the Pro Bowl in 1987 and joined the Cowboys midseason in 1993 after being unceremoniously cut by his longtime team; another made the Pro Bowl in 1988 before signing on with the Cowboys as a wily veteran in 1995; and the other backed up Aikman in 1992, before having a Pro Bowl year in 1999 with a different team. Name two of these three Aikman backups.
Bernie Kosar, Wade Wilson, Steve Beuerlein