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
What is the official name of the snake-like game from the Tron franchise in which players drive vehicles in straight lines, only turning in 90 degree angles and leaving behind trailing walls which must be avoided?
Light Cycles
Baseball
In September 1948, a short poem by Boston Herald sports editor Gerald V. Hern was adapted into a pithy epigram: “______ and ______ and pray for rain.” Name either of the Boston Braves pitchers who fill out the first part of the rhyming phrase.
Warren Spahn, Jonny Sain
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