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
Uncategorized
Three Army football stars have won the Heisman Trophy - Glenn Davis, Doc Blanchard and the most recent, Pete Dawkins, in 1958. What Navy football star was the next service academy graduate to win the Heisman Trophy? Roger Staubach? Not so fast my friend.
Joe Bellino
Olympics
In Olympic weightlifting, competitors demonstrate skill using two different techniques. One is the clean-and-jerk, which involves raising the barbell to a racked position across the chest and then raising the barbell overhead. What is the second technique, in which the weight is lifted overhead in one smooth motion?
Snatch
Racing & Combat
In the twelfth round of a 1952 boxing bout televised live on ABC, announcer Don Dunphy remarked, “this is probably the tamest round of the entire fight.” Within moments, one of the fighters drove the other into the ropes and battered him with 29 straight punches that sent him into a coma from which he’d die ten days later. Name either fighter in this bout.
Benny Paret, Emile Griffith