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
In 1972, Jacques Doucet and Claude Raymond were hired as the French language broadcasters for the Montreal Expos. The sponsor of the broadcasts asked them to invent French-language equivalents for baseball terminology, rather than simply using the English terms. What term did Doucet and Raymond translate as “balle papillon” (literally “butterfly ball”)?
Knuckleball
Obscure
The J Crown was a special tournament conceived by Justin Thunder Liger in New Japan Pro Wrestling to unify a number of junior heavyweight and cruiserweight titles won by the Great Sasuke who later lost these belts to Ultimo Dragon. How many belts were won in this tournament?
8
Obscure
Who won the Triple Crown of Surfing three times and more than two decades apart (1995, 1998, and 2019)? If the “Personal life” section of his Wikipedia page is accurate, he also pulled off a triple crown of a different sort, with romantic links to Pamela Anderson, Gisele Bündchen, and Cameron Diaz.
Kelly Slater