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
Games
Alongside Lon McEachern, who was the comedic color commentator on ESPN’s coverage of the World Series of Poker for almost two decades? He also wrote a weekly syndicated sports column called “The Couch Slouch,” in which he awarded you $1.25 if you wrote in and he used your question. Pay the man, Shirley
Norman Chad
Games
How many strikes must a player roll to achieve a 900 series in bowling?
36
Football
In 2007, Woody Paige was mocked by fellow panelists on Around the Horn for using a certain word in reference to a football play that the others deemed incorrect. In response, Paige made the claim that he was right, and the term derived from a team of NYC firemen in Hell’s Kitchen. (It’s not clear whether he was serious.) Give either the word Paige used, or the full name of the play.
Ladder (Hook-and-Ladder, Hook-and-Lateral)