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
After Chase Utley fractured the right leg of Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada in the 2015 MLB playoffs, the San Francisco Chronicle’s Henry Schulman wrote a column wondering why there wasn’t as much outrage three years earlier, in the NLCS, when another player took out Marco Scutaro with a similar slide, eventually resulting in Scutaro having to leave the game. Name the sliding player in this earlier incident.
Matt Holliday
Basketball
What longtime NBA guard superstitiously slept in the shorts of the opposing team and banned himself from eating anything but chicken before each game? He also presciently got a tattoo of the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy prior to the 2011 NBA playoffs.
Jason Terry
Uncategorized
At one of the shows on the 1989 World tour, Taylor Swift was presented with her very own “championship banner” celebrating the record for the most sold out performances at that particular venue. What was the venue, and who was the athlete that presented her with the banner? For the venue, either the old name or the current name is fine.
Kobe Bryant, Staples Center