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
Obscure
“They attempted to set up badminton, but no one could find the shuttlecock. They improvised with a perforated plastic ball, lowered the badminton net, and fabricated paddles of plywood from a nearby shed.”
This description of events that took place on Bainbridge Island in the summer of 1965 refers to the origins of what sport?
Pickleball
Hockey
When the International Ice Hockey Federation chose its centennial all-star team, the third-highest vote getter—just behind Slava Fetisov and Wayne Gretzky—was a goaltender with three Olympic gold medals (and one notable silver, in which he was pulled in the first period in a critical game) who is now the president of the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia. Name him.
Vladislav Tretiak
Country Club
Karsten Solheim, an engineer at General Electric, began making putters in 1959 in his garage, and one of his major innovations was to attach the shaft to the hollowed-out center of the blade in order to redistribute weight to the heel and toe and create a bigger, more forgiving sweet spot. What onomatopoeic name did he give to his putters, and, later, to his company?
Ping