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
Give the term that is military slang for a member of the U.S. Marine Corps, and that is currently used as the nickname of Western Illinois, the only public school with permission to use a military derived nickname (as well as the USMC official seal). This permission was granted to Rock Hanson, a Marine Corps colonel who was the school’s athletic director in 1927 when the nickname was adopted.
Leatherneck
Baseball
One of the up-and-coming voices of TV baseball broadcasts is the man in this clip, who, in addition to his national work with Fox Sports, has been the primary play-by-play man for the Detroit Tigers since the 2024 season. Before joining the Tigers, he spent 7 seasons in the White Sox broadcast booth. Name him. LINK
Jason Benetti
Soccer
On April 10, two lower-tier U.K. soccer clubs faced off in a pivotal league match in which each had already accumulated 100 points for the season—the first time such a match had ever taken place in league history. Name the league.
(Again, name the league, not the teams.)
Vanarama National League