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
Give the name of the French general, alive from 1725 to 1807, whose name is a synonym for the game Rock, Paper, Scissors—bizarrely, because the rumor that he played the game during the American Revolution can only be apocryphal. The name is also used in the show South Park to describe a game in which two players take turns kicking each other in the groin until one falls over.
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (but Rochambeau will do just fine)
Olympics
A star sprinter and long jumper at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Vonetta Flowers was the first Black athlete from any country to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics. What sport did she win her gold medal in?
Bobsled
Football
Though post-2014 renovations lessened the effect somewhat, a sign in the press box of this stadium has long warned visiting sportswriters that "the press box will move" during the 'sawing Varsity's horns off' portion of the War Hymn.
Kyle Field