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
Olympics
The United States has won a gold medal in every Olympic games, but in four different winter games, they were held to just one. Who was the lone gold medalist for the Americans at the 1968 Grenoble games? This person not only secured gold for her country, but brought U.S. figure skating back to prominence following a devastating 1961 plane crash that killed the entire team. After the Olympics, she went on to commentate for ABC Sports for more than 20 years, and is still alive today.
Peggy Fleming
Hockey
Toronto rapper SVDVM had a rap song and video go viral after which star player acknowledged he had heard and liked the song in a post-game interview? The chorus—featuring SVDVM threating to “hit ‘em with the 4 like [redacted]”—references the player’s 2016 rookie debut, in which he memorably scored 4 goals against the Ottawa Senators, the only player in history to do so in their first NHL game.
Auston Mathews
Soccer
Fill in the blank with the man who took office on June 8, 1998, and comes next in this incomplete line of succession: Rodolphe Seeldrayers, Arthur Drewry, Ernst Thommen (acting), Stanley Rous, Joao Havelange, _________.
Sepp Blatter