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
Racing & Combat
Despite Tadej Pogacar’s best efforts in the Pyrenees, he failed to catch the race leader, and came up short in his effort to win his third straight Tour de France. Name the man who became the second Dane to win the yellow jersey, while also capturing the King of the Mountains classification.
Jonas Vingegaard
Uncategorized
While Ernie Els leads the way for the Internationals with a total of 21 points, it took him 40 matches to reach this total, for a winning percentage of only 52.5%. Among players with at least eight career matches, there are two with a winning percentage greater than 60%. One of them is more recently known for racist and homophobic remarks than his golf, and the other is nicknamed “The Smiling Assasin.” Name either.
Steve Elkington, Shigeki Maruyama
Basketball
Fill in the blank from this Bleacher Report article on on NBA flops with the correct name (same player in both blanks):
No one at Duke sees ______________ as a bust. He won the Naismith, Oscar Robertson and UPI Player of the Year awards as a Blue Devil and was (and still is) in the school's top-10 ranks for points, rebounds and assists. When the Clippers drafted him No. 2 overall, they thought he was a triple-double threat for years to come. Then they found out ______ refused to play for L.A., who traded him to Cleveland where he signed a 10-year contract. Many Cavs fans probably thought it was 10 years too many. He averaged seven points, 2.8 rebounds and 1.3 assists over his career and started a whopping 11 games in his first five seasons.
Danny Ferry