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
Uncategorized
The use of props in Dunk Contests is nothing new. One of the more creative prop dunks came from Gerald Green in 2008, when placed what item on the rim, and then did what to it while dunking? (For a complete answer, we will need an item and an action)
Blew out a candle (on a cupcake)
Hockey
Gretzky also famously hosted Saturday Night Live in 1989 but his appearance on the show did not garner nearly as much mainstream attention for hockey as when Chance the Rapper hosted in 2017 and played “Lazlo Holmes” in a viral sketch as a bewildered New York Knicks courtside reporter who was forced to cover a New York Rangers game. His general confusion about the proceedings led to what encouraging 4-word phrase becoming a meme? Chance would go on to reprise his role as Lazlo (and repeat the phrase) in sketches for the NHL, appearing with P.K. Subban, Henrik Lundqvist, and others.
Let's Do That Hockey
Baseball
After Chase Utley fractured the right leg of Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada in the 2015 MLB playoffs, the San Francisco Chronicle’s Henry Schulman wrote a column wondering why there wasn’t as much outrage three years earlier, in the NLCS, when another player took out Marco Scutaro with a similar slide, eventually resulting in Scutaro having to leave the game. Name the sliding player in this earlier incident.
Matt Holliday