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
Hockey
In 2004, Avalanche forward Steve Moore was marked for retribution by the Canucks, one of whom punched Moore in the back of the head, broke three vertebrae, and ended his career. In 2000, after losing a fight to Donald Brashear, an angry Bruin slashed Brashear in the head, sending him tumbling to the ice with a concussion. In 1988, Leafs defenseman Luke Richardson checked a North Stars player into the boards, and in retaliation, the player clubbed Richardson over and over with his stick. All three players involved in these incidents achieved the rare distinction of being arrested for their on-ice conduct; name any one of them.
Todd Bertuzzi, Marty McSorley, Dino Ciccarelli
Hockey
David E. Kelley, the son of U.S. hockey Hall of Famer Jack Kelley, took inspiration for his 1999 script Mystery, Alaska from an unsuccessful 1905 Stanley Cup challenge. A small gold-rush mining town in the Canadian Yukon, Dawson City sent its scrappy team of irregulars 4,000 miles by bike, dog sled, ship, train and foot to challenge the reigning Stanley Cup champs that year. They were dispatched in two games by a combined score of 32-4. Give the winning club’s two-word, metallic nickname OR the name with which it joined the NHL 12 years later.
Silver Seven or Ottawa Senators
Racing & Combat
Popularized in part by the third Fast & Furious film, Formula D features head-to-head runs judged on angle and style rather than speed. What motorsport discipline does this describe?
Drifting