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
Racing & Combat
Mike Tyson won his first heavyweight championship with a victory over Trevor Berbick in 1986, and lost his final title to Evander Holyfield in 1996 (thought he would later fight, and lose, more title bouts, including one against Lennox Lewis). In the ten years between the Berbick and Holyfield bouts, Tyson lost just once, to Buster Douglas. Name any one of the 15 fighters he defeated in that ten-year period.
James Smith, Pinklon Thomas, Tony Tucker, Tyrell Biggs, Larry Holmes, Tony Tubbs, Michael Spinks, Frank Bruno, Carl Williams, Henry Tillman, Alex Stewart, Donovan Ruddock, Peter McNeeley, Buster Mathis Jr., Frank Bruno, Bruce Seldon
Basketball
Jamal Crawford tops the list of players with the most career points in the NBA (19,419) without a single All-Star appearance. Numbers 10 and 17 on that list are a former Arizona Wildcat who made the All-Rookie second team in 2002 for the Nets, and a Mississippi native who received the same honor in 2005 for the Boston Celtics. What last name do they share?
Jefferson
Soccer
Give the name of the soccer club founded in 1886 by munitions workers in Woolwich who worked at a facility that was “used for the manufacture of armaments and ammunition, proofing, and explosives research for the British armed forces.” Today, the club’s logo still includes a cannon.
Arsenal