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
Obscure
Grabbing the edge of a skateboard with your back hand between your heels is a reasonably common trick known as what? The trick was named after Tony Hawk's direct and negative description of the canned food at a skate camp in Sweden.
Stalefish
Racing & Combat
When journalist Dave Meltzer predicted that a Ring of Honor wrestling event couldn’t sell 10,000 tickets, Cody Rhodes and The Young Bucks teamed up to stage an independent event called “All In” that eclipsed the mark. Their success led to the formation of what organization in 2018, which is now the second-largest wrestling promotion in the world, behind WWE? (Name or acronym are both acceptable.)
All Elite Wrestling (AEW)
Baseball
In the second modern World Series, Christy Mathewson threw three complete game shutouts in the span of six days. This being the dead ball era, both games in between Mathewson’s starts were also shutouts: a 3-0 gem by Chief Bender, and a 1-0 heartbreaker in which the loser allowed only an unearned run following a shortstop error in the fourth. Who was that losing pitcher? He was the first lefthander to win 300 games, and given his arm strength and stamina, you would not be off base to associate him with a yoga pose called Chaturanga Dandasana, or one of its several variants.
Eddie Plank