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
Country Club
In 1927, the year Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs, he was paid $70,000 in base salary. That was $30,000 less than the total earned from a 40-stop U.S. tour concluding that same year by the first woman to turn professional in tennis. Today, this woman’s name lives on in a trophy and a show court at a grand slam venue. Who is she?
Suzanne Lenglen
Baseball
Gotta start this sequel with a question about a sequel! Your author’s personal favorite sports movie villain is the chain-smoking, trash-talking, pitch-renaming, homer-bashing catcher Jack Parkman from Major League II. In a role played to perfection by prolific character actor David Keith, Parkman starts the MLB season with our heroes, the Cleveland Indians, and plays well while the rest of the team struggles. Ownership, going broke, forces Cleveland to trade Parkman to an American League team, which in the movie is referred to as the defending World Series champions, but, uh, that hadn’t been true in quite a while when this movie came out in 1994. Name Parkman’s new team.
Chicago White Sox
Uncategorized
At the turn of the 20th century, this word came to be associated with the "spirit" of gentlemanly amateurism (despite the fact that there's ample evidence of professional athletics in ancient Greece). It is still present in modern sports in the name of one of Brazil's most successful soccer teams, itself named after a London-based club who popularized the sport of soccer around the world with tours in the early 20th century (tours made necessary because the club's commitment to amateurism forced it out of FA competition). What is that word?
Corinthian