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
Basketball
Name the last player from a Pac-12 school (Pac-10, at the time) to lead his team in scoring in a victorious national title game in men's Division 1 basketball. His initials were M.S., and he scored 30 points.
Miles Simon
Uncategorized
The LA Galaxy made him the 16th overall pick in the 2001 MLS Super Draft after a stellar career at Gonzaga. However, he didn’t his stride until joining the San Jose Earthquakes in 2003, when he helped the team win the MLS Cup. He then moved with the team to Houston, where he scored a still team-record 56 goals for the Dynamo, and captured two MLS Cups in 2006 and 2007. Who is this six-time MLS All-Star, the second Chinese-American (after Mark Chung) to play on the US Men’s National Team?
Brian Ching
Obscure
What piece of sporting equipment is known formally by a compound word whose first part stems from its back-and-forth motion, reminiscent of a component of old looms, and whose second part derives from the similarity of one part—in its original non-synthetic form, which is far less common recreationally but still used in major competitions—to the epidermal growths of a certain animal?
Shuttlecock