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
Baseball
Bull Durham
Any sports movie friendly has to start with Ron Shelton’s 1988 paean to minor league baseball. Late in the movie, Nuke LaLoosh gets promoted to the majors, which means that the Durham Bulls no longer need to keep Crash Davis around to mentor him, and Crash gets released just before getting a chance to break the minor-league home run record. Name the team Crash Davis later joins, with whom he hits his 247th dinger and then hangs ‘em up.
Asheville Tourists
Baseball
What was the name of the bat that broke in half during the ninth inning of a one-game playoff between the New York Knights and the Pittsburgh Pirates with Roy Hobbs at the plate?
Wonderboy
Soccer
Three teams from nations with at least part of their landmass in Asia have reached the men's World Cup semifinals. Name any *two* of them.
Soviet Union, South Korea, Turkey