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 mid-1930s Pittsburgh Crawfords are often ranked as the best team in Negro Leagues history, and it's not hard to see why. In 1934, for example, the team featured Josh Gibson behind the plate, Satchel Paige on the mound and three other future Hall of Famers in the field: one who was "so fast he could flip the light switch and be in bed before the room got dark;" another who is considered one of the best third basemen in the history of Black baseball; and a third who was past his prime by the 1930s but who some view as the greatest player in Negro Leagues history. Name any one of these three players.
Cool Papa Bell, Judy Johnson, Oscar Charleston
Hockey
The New York Rangers were the most dominant team of the regular season, earning themselves the Presidents' Trophy with 112 points, 11 points clear of the second-best team. Who was the Rangers’ head coach that season? Though he'd led both the Flyers and Blackhawks to the Stanley Cup Finals in the previous decade, he'd yet to lift the Cup in victory.
Mike Keenan
Uncategorized
A quiz about New York State sports cannot be complete without a trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. One of this year's inductees was born right along the I-90 corridor (in Fort Plain, about 30 miles away from the Hall of Fame), and was credited with being the earliest known African-American professional baseball player, playing from 1895-1898. Name the player, who would also have ownership in three different Negro League teams before dying not far from the Hall, in Frankfort in 1913. The City of Cooperstown would also honor him in 2013 by declaring it “[This Man's] Day” on April 23.
Bud Fowler