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
This question lacks journalistic objectivity, but for me, a Rafa fanboy, the two most obnoxious men to ever defeat Nadal got their unfortunate wins at the 2009 French Open (Rafa’s first loss ever at Roland Garros, to a player who previously refused to say hello to him in a 2007 four-day, five-set Wimbledon match, while mocking his habit of tugging at his shorts) and in 2012 at Wimbledon (to a player who later pissed off Andy Murray to such an extent that Murray said “No one likes you on the tour. Everybody hates you”). Name both players.
Robin Soderling, Lukas Rosol
Baseball
This pitcher recorded 160 saves for the Mets between 1999 and 2003 before he was traded to the Yankees. Before his short stint in pinstripes, his most notable achievement in the Bronx was allowing the Jeffrey Maier-assisted Derek Jeter home run in the 1996 playoffs with the Orioles. Tony Tarasco, the outfielder denied a chance to catch the flyball, had cups of coffee with both the Yankees and Mets as well.
Armando Benitez
Hockey
In the 1980-81 NHL season, Islander Mike Bossy led the league with 68 goals scored, and Wayne Gretzky, at Edmonton, was fourth with 55 goals. The second- and third-leading scorers both came from the L.A. Kings, and if you say their last names back to back, they sound like the first two words of a three-word catchphrase used by the character Nadeen on SNL. Name either. (One of the two players is now in the Hockey Hall of Fame, and the other was a commentator for the Coyotes and Flames.)
Charlie Simmer, Marcel Dionne