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
Games
The term “solitaire” technically refers to any tabletop game, using cards or otherwise, that can be played alone. However, thanks in part to the Windows operating system, in the U.S. and Canada the word “solitaire” usually refers to a specific card game. Beyond “solitaire,” what’s the most common name for this specific game in these countries? The name likely derives from a late-19th-century gold rush.
Klondike
Games
While nudging in order to manipulate the ball is allowed in pinball, machines have a mechanism to detect when the nudging becomes excessive. What is this violation most commonly called?
Tilt/Tilting
Uncategorized
Out of hundreds of athletes, this Italian cross-country skier won the most medals at the Games with five: two gold, two silver, and a bronze. She won seven medals in her career. At the Torino 2006 Games, she was an Olympic flagbearer and personally awarded the gold medal in the men’s 50 km cross-country race to her younger brother.
Manuela Di Centa