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
Basketball
UConn men’s head basketball coach Danny Hurley comes from a famous basketball family—his brother Bobby was a star at Duke and is the head coach at Arizona State, and what about his father, Bob Hurley Sr., who was a basketball kingpin as coach of St. Anthony High in New Jersey? But one of Hurley’s assistants at UConn has a far more famous father. This assistant previously earned his stripes as an assistant at Louisville, Xavier, Rhode Island, and Wagner, among others. Name him.
Luke Murray
Hockey
In the history of Olympic men’s and women’s hockey, only nine nations have won a medal of any kind, counting the Soviet Union/Russia/Unified Team/OAR as a single entity, and doing the same for Germany/West Germany and Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic. Of the six remaining nations, name four.
Canada, U.S., Sweden, Switzerland, England, Finland
Soccer
Only three teams at the women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand managed to get through the group stages without a loss or a draw, collecting nine points in three matches with three wins. Name any one of them.
England, Japan, Sweden