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
For many years, FIBA rules stipulated that the key be shaped like a trapezoid. FIBA has since adopted a rectangular-shaped key, following long-time NBA convention. What was the host nation of the last Olympic Games to contest the basketball tournament with the trapezoid-shaped key?
China
Olympics
A Moroccan waiter named Ahmed Bouchiki—wrongly believed to be a different man named Ali Hassan Salameh—was killed in July 1973 by foreign agents in a European town with a population of less than 30,000 people. This assassination came in response to events that took place the previous September in a European city with a population of more than a million people. In 1994, these two locations would become permanently linked in history by sports alone. Name both locations.
(Note: It’s not necessary to name the country in either case.)
Lillehammer, Munich
Basketball
What was the most common (and not quite prophetic) nickname of Tamir Goodman, an athlete featured in Sports Illustrated as a 17-year-old who later played for Towson University and Maccabi Tel Aviv?
The Jewish Jordan