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
Moving on to another uncommon sport…because it’s not real: BASEketball. Opinions are… mixed on how funny people find the 1998 comedy, perhaps because it is VERY 1998 in its tone. This includes the name of the villainous Dallas franchise, who defeat the Milwaukee Beers for the Denslow Cup title in the opening scenes of the film. The Dallas team name is no doubt in reference to the wild behavior of certain players during the '90s Dallas Cowboys NFL dynasty, chronicled in Jeff Pearlman’s book Boys Will Be Boys. What was the nickname of the Dallas BASEketball team in the movie?
Felons
Uncategorized
Name the first golfer to win the U.S. Open as an amateur. (Note: Shia LaBeouf is not an acceptable answer.)
Francis Ouimet
Baseball
What former Padres utilityman released the memoir Going the Other Way: Lessons from a Life In and Out of Major League Baseball in 2003? It was coincidentally overshadowed by the release of Moneyball the same year.
Billy Bean