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
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Fever Pitch is a 1992 memoir by Nick Hornby, talking about his life and love for Arsenal Football Club. The book has been adapted twice for the silver screen. The first loose adaption was a 1997 flick starring Colin Firth. The second adaptation was a US version in 2005 that strayed even further from the source material, changing the sport entirely. Name both the actor and actress who play the lead roles in this Red Sox-centric version.
Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon
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According to many Seattle Mariners fans (including this question writer), Edgar Martinez’s series-winning two-run double against the Yankees in the 1995 ALDS is the greatest play in franchise history. Fittingly, franchise icon Ken Griffey Jr. scored the winning run. But what diminutive switch-hitter scored the tying run? He started the rally with a drag bunt single that, to my knowledge, was not facilitated by any sign-stealing chicanery he might have learned from his younger brother.
Joey Cora
Basketball
In the second round of the 2023 men’s NCAA Division 1 basketball tournament, the UConn Huskies defeated 5-seed St. Mary’s 70-55. Name the other two 5-seeds they beat in that tournament. (They won beach game by double digits.)
Miami, San Diego State