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
Bob Davids was an original founder of the Society for American Baseball Research, an organization whose acronym Bill James later used as inspiration for coining what term for his particular field of statistical analysis?
Sabermetrics
Games
Give the name of the French general, alive from 1725 to 1807, whose name is a synonym for the game Rock, Paper, Scissors—bizarrely, because the rumor that he played the game during the American Revolution can only be apocryphal. The name is also used in the show South Park to describe a game in which two players take turns kicking each other in the groin until one falls over.
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (but Rochambeau will do just fine)
Games
Fill in either blank in this Wikipedia entry, which describes a game in which an informed minority tries to kill off all the uninformed majority of "villagers" or "townsfolk," and vice versa. "BLANK, also known as BLANK, is a social deduction game created by Dimitry Davidoff in 1986."
Mafia, Werewolf