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
The 2003 ALCS came to a sudden end when Aaron Boone, who had entered the game as a pinch-runner, hit the first pitch of the bottom of the 11th inning of the 7th game of the series off of what Boston Red Sox knuckleballer?
Tim Wakefield
Baseball
Although Willie Mueller spent his entire (relatively short) MLB career with the Milwaukee Brewers, when "he" faced Jake Taylor in the bottom of the ninth with the season on the line in a one-game playoff for the divisional title, what team did he play for?
New York Yankees
Football
According to a widely refuted story, the small decorative niches often cut into the walls of staircase landings in Victorian homes were designed so that a casket could be carried down the stairs more easily if someone died in an upstairs bedroom. In this apocryphal story, what was the name of this niche? It is heard today far more often in reference to men like the ones pictured below, from a current ESPN leaderboard.
Coffin corner