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
Soccer
Lucien Laurent was born in 1907 in the Paris suburb Saint-Maur-des-Fosses. What athletic feat, which has been duplicated more than 2,500 times since, did he accomplish for the first time approximately 10,700 kilometers southwest of his birthplace?
Scoring a World Cup goal
Hockey
According to some historians, the first openly professional hockey team in Canada played from 1904 to 1907 as the lone Canadian team in the International Hockey League. Known informally as the “Canadian Soo,” which city did the team play in? (The American city of the same name, which lies on the opposite side of the city’s main river, has been immortalized in song by Sufjan Stevens.)
Sault Ste. Marie
Baseball
Since the World Series moved to a best-of-7 format permanently in 1922, the longest stretch without a Game 7 ran from 2003, when the Marlins beat the Yankees in six games, and 2010, when the Giants beat the Rangers 4-1. Name the pitcher who pitched the last inning for the winning team in either one of the Game 7s that bookended this stretch. Both would go on to earn more than 40 saves for their team the following season.
Troy Percival, Jason Motte