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
Among the 10 worst-scoring outputs in NBA Finals history, 9 of them occurred before the implementation of the shot clock. That fact makes it that much more shocking that the record holder for fewest points scored in an NBA finals game, with 54, happened 44 years after the introduction of the shot clock. Who is the team?
Utah Jazz
Olympics
What swimming event (distance and stroke) at the 2004 Summer Olympics was dubbed “The Race of Century”? It featured arguably the top four male swimmers at the time—Australian legend Ian Thorpe won gold; Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands took silver; Michael Phelps settled for bronze; and Australian Grant Hackett, former world record holder in the event, failed to medal.
200m freestyle
Uncategorized
You can't go up and down the Thruway without learning about the old New York-Penn League. Several cities along the I-90 Corridor used to boast a team, but unfortunately, the league folded in 2020 after Rome native Rob Manfred's quest to streamline (or destroy, depending on who you talk to) minor league baseball. However, in the 2010s, quite a few of these former New York-Penn homes found new life in the summer collegiate ranks, giving aspiring pro baseball players a chance to be seen by scouts and hopefully, someday, make the big leagues. In 2011, which scouting company created its own league, which celebrated its tenth season in 2021? Twelve of the current sixteen franchises had New York-Penn League ties, including final holdouts Auburn and Batavia, who finally joined the league in 2020 after the NY-P folded.
Perfect Game or Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League