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
Olympics
The 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis were famously overshadowed and poorly attended, partly due to their overlap with what other major event being held in the city that same year?
World's Fair
Baseball
Instructions for all ten questions:
All questions will refer to the grid below, and correct answers will meet ALL the given criteria for each question.
When a franchise pairs with an award horizontally, it means the player won that award while playing with that team. (i.e. The Rookie of the Year was chosen as a Cardinal.)
When teams and awards are grouped vertically, the player may or may not have claimed those honors with the team/s listed–he just has to have played for them and won the awards at some point in his career.
The Clemente Award is given annually for positive contributions to the game of baseball “on and off the field,” and all statistical milestones are minimum thresholds, a la “the 3000 hit club.”
Sammy Sosa
Football
In an ESPN story from 2015 documenting the timeline of a failed unionization effort in NCAA football, the entry for April 5, 2014 reads as follows: “__________ football coach ________ urges his players to vote against forming a union.” Fill in the blanks with both the name of the school and the name of the coach.
Pat Fitzgerald, Northwestern