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
For Luis Gonzalez’s walkoff single to win the 2001 World Series, what Diamondbacks shortstop was on second base? This teammate was a former 3x NL stolen-base leader and had just hit a game-tying double off Mariano Rivera. Earlier in the same postseason, he’d hit a NLDS-winning walkoff of his own against the Cardinals.
Tony Womack
Hockey
In a famous Ray Lussier photograph taken in 1970, an athlete is captured mid-air, parallel to the ground, arms extended in celebration and/or self-preservation after being tripped by defenseman Noel Picard. Who was the athlete?
Bobby Orr
Games
The 2007 documentary 'The King of Kong: ____________' told the story of Steve Wiebe and and Billy Mitchell as they attempted to set the high score record for the arcade version of Donkey Kong. Fill in the blank with the second half of the title, which is a play on the title of a 1964 spaghetti western directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood.
A Fistful of Quarters