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
Football
Name the Emmy winner who is the only commentator to have called a championship game of his sport on all four major US networks (CBS, Fox, ABC, NBC).
John Madden
Games
2024 festival film and 2025 wide release The Luckiest Man in America features Paul Walter Hauser as Michael Larson and Walton Goggins as Peter Tomarken, host of what gameshow whose true story the movie is based upon?
Press Your Luck
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THE BONUS PIECE
Gary Smith’s enviable contract required him to produce four longform pieces per year, and the results (four National Magazine Awards and 12 pieces collected in The Best American Sports Writing) spoke for themselves. One of Smith’s best-loved “bonus” pieces, “Someone to Lean On,” narrated the decades-long bond between a South Carolina high school football coach and a man named James Kennedy. What was Kennedy’s one-word nickname? (It’s also the title of a galling 2003 film adaptation for which Gary Smith should not be held responsible.)
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