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
Xu Xin and Wang Ho are considered two of the most prominent “penhold” players in what sport?
Table Tennis
Uncategorized
President Barack Obama filled out annual brackets for the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournament while in office. In 2015, his women’s bracket projected that an 8-seed would make a shocking run to the Final Four; it was surely just a coincidence that his niece was a freshman on that squad. Name the school (which went on to blow up POTUS’s bracket by losing to 1-seed Maryland in the second round).
Princeton
Olympics
Today is a THEME DAY. Theme days can be overt, or they can be subtle and connected, in such a way that figuring out the theme may help you answer the questions.
Identify the appropriately named man who holds the American record for the pole vault with a clearance of 19 feet, 11 inches in Nashville achieved in June 2023. This also put him fourth all-time behind Olympic gold medalist Mondo Duplantis (who was born and still lives in Louisiana, but represents Sweden competitively, and who is superior, they say).
KC Lightfoot