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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
Uncategorized
On the March 25, 2022 episode of his Sirius show, Pat McAfee yelled this while marveling at a complete and instant crowd invasion at the Sydney Cricket Ground, which delayed the game for some 25 minutes...
"...six minutes left on the g*dd*mn clock, Buddy Franklin bangs home his [redacted] [redacted]. The entire stadium attacks him! This is a once-in-a-generational type thing to happen, is what I was told by Aussies tweeting me..."
In that moment, Lance "Buddy" Franklin had become the 6th player in Victorian/Australian Football League history to reach what career milestone?
1,000 Goals
Football
Though used at least at Notre Dame and Georgetown (and probably other Catholic schools) much earlier, what quarterback's use of the phrase "Hail Mary" to describe his pass in a playoff win over the Vikings in 1975 made it commonplace among football fans?
Roger Staubach
Baseball
Name the Civil War captain (and future major general) who fired off the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter and had later successes in business, but is perhaps most famous today for something that historians have decisively proved he never actually did. (Nor, it seems, did he ever claim to have done so.)
Abner Doubleday