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
Football
Any Given Sunday (1999) adapted a 1984 novel by ex-Raider Pat Toomay, but it also incorporated elements from a whistleblowing 1994 book by a former Raiders medical staffer, Dr. Robert Huizenga. In the latter book, Raiders safety Mike Harden is still recovering from a massive hit he’d taken late in the 1988 season while returning an interception. Name the Hall of Fame wide receiver -- not otherwise known for his physicality -- who delivered that shot on Harden, partially in retaliation for a concussion Harden had inflicted on him 14 weeks earlier.
Steve Largent
Hockey
A driving force behind the Phantoms' creation was to have a regular tenant of this arena, which the Flyers and 76ers left behind to play in the new CoreStates (now Wells Fargo) Center.
The Spectrum
Country Club
Name either player who defeated Roger Federer in his last professional match on Sept. 23.
Jack Sock, Francis Tiafoe