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
Baseball
In the short history of Olympic baseball, the U.S. has won just a single gold medal, in the 2000 Sydney games. Who came out of retirement to manage that team?
Tommy Lasorda
Olympics
Following a 1968 Olympic feat, Wales’ Lynn Davies—the defending gold medalist—approached his competitor, a South Jamaica, Queens native, and said, “you have destroyed this event.” Fifty-plus years later, that man still holds the Olympic record set on that day, though he was later passed by Mike Powell for the world record. Who was he?
Bob Beamon
Hockey
Pat Jablonski (class of 1985) played goalie for parts of 8 seasons in the NHL for 5 different teams. In the 1992-1993 season, he saw his most action, playing in 43 games and making over 1000 saves for which expansion team which has since won three Stanley Cups?
Tampa Bay Lightning