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 song “Bugler’s Dream” by Leo Arnaud became famous in the U.S. starting in 1968, when ABC began to use it as a theme song for its Olympic telecast. When NBC won the broadcast rights in 1988, they tried to use different music, but nothing stuck. Finally, they combined the first 45 seconds of “Bugler’s Dream,” with its iconic drumbeat followed by trumpets and brass, and then segued into a new song, “Olympic Fanfare and Theme.” Name the composer of this second song; he's won 25 Grammys, four Golden Globes, and five Academy Awards in a decorated career that includes several collaborations with George Lucas.
John Williams
Football
Name the defensive tackle and future hall-of-famer who won the NFL defensive player of the year award in 1992 despite playing on a team that finished with a 2-14 record.
Cortez Kennedy
Uncategorized
One of the greatest centers of all time once said: "From this day on I'd like to be known as 'The Big ______' because ______ once said, 'Excellence is not a singular act; it's a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. '” The Macedonian philosopher whose name this center was adopting didn't actually say that quote, but it's a pithy summary of ideas contained in his Nichomachean Ethics. I'm inclined to let the 7'1" LSU graduate who went on to get a doctorate from Barry University slide on this one. Name both men.
Aristotle, Shaquille O’Neal