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
Soccer
At this point, the men’s FIFA World Cup champion can seem almost like a closed club, with just eight winners in 22 events. In fact, the list of nations that have made just a single World Cup final in their history is only four countries long. Of those four, Spain and England won their lone World Cup final; name either nation that lost their only try.
Sweden, Croatia
Country Club
If there was a tennis award for “runner-up of the year” in 2022, it would likely have gone to the Norwegian man who made the singles finals at the French Open, the U.S. Open, the Miami Open and the ATP Finals…and lost all four (though he did capture three smaller titles). Name him.
Casper Ruud
Uncategorized
Name the French pop singer best-known for his 1991 hit “Saga Africa,” which peaked at #2 on the French music charts and spent 15 weeks in the top ten. This singer has since released seven more platinum albums, performed at Bob Geldof’s “Live 8” concert in 2005, and headlined a sold-out show at Stade de France attended by over 80,000 fans. In sports circles, he’s best known as the winner of the 1983 French Open (the last countryman to win the men’s final), as well as for being the father of another well-known championship-winning athlete.
Yannick Noah