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
One team made NHL history at the start of the season by becoming the first team ever to begin with a perfect 10-0-0 record. The streak finally ended on October 30 with a 5-2 loss to a fellow Original Six team. Led by Doug Gilmour’s 111 points, this team would reach the Conference Finals for a second straight season. What team set this NHL record best start?
Toronto Maple Leafs
Basketball
Name the rangy Canarsie High and Georgia Tech alum turned “bad boy” who became the first player to win an NBA championship with three different teams, and also the first to win in three different decades.
John Salley
Basketball
On Jan. 1, 1967, the Boeing Company was announced as the winner of a national design competition for a new Concorde-like passenger airplane that would travel at speeds up to Mach 3. They were awarded a government contract, but the project was abandoned in 1971 due to a cut in funding and environmental concerns. Despite the failure, the project lives lived on in the nickname of what franchise?
Seattle Supersonics