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
Uncategorized
Current fans probably think that the most notable call in the history of British soccer is Martin Tyler shouting the last name of Sergio Aguero as he scored the sensational stoppage-time winner that delivered the 2012 Premier League title to Manchester City. But for older fans, nothing tops the startled observation by Kenneth Wolstenholme at the end of the 1966 World Cup Final at Wembley Stadium. As England’s Geoff Hurst rampaged forward to score the championship-clinching goal (and complete the only hat trick in a World Cup Final), Wolstenholme saw fans coming out of the stands, and blurted out, “some people are on the pitch …” His next words became an unforgettable quote which resonates in British popular culture to this day, and were even adopted as the title of a sports trivia show which ran for over a decade on BBC television. What was Kenneth Wolstenholme’s famous next line?
“They think it's all over!”
Hockey
When the Phantoms' arena was marked for demolition, the team had outlived its usefulness in the city. It was sold to a group out of Pittsburgh and moved to Glen Falls, NY and became the Adirondack Phantoms until 2014, when they moved closer to its original home by going to Allentown, PA where they are now called the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. The franchise played its final home game in Philly on April 9, 2009. The occasion was marked by a pre-game ceremony featuring the voice of the Flyers' Hall of Fame play-by-play announcer giving his signoff line, "Good night and good hockey". Who is the announcer?
Gene Hart
Racing & Combat
David Keith has another movie appearance as an athlete. This role is in a 2003 film that is not a “sports movie,” but does have an important sports-related scene. Keith plays (fictional) boxer Jack Murdock. Murdock has been paid to throw a boxing match, but reneges and wins the match instead. This greatly displeases a mob boss with this nickname -- a nickname that is also the name of a 1996 sports comedy where the villain is played by Bill Murray. What is the name the mob boss and the Bill Murray movie share?
Kingpin