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
Uncategorized
In 1985, there was no true buzzer beater, meaning that the first of the 64-team era came in 1986, when a player who would go on to score more than 15,000 points in the NBA hit a game-winner for Iowa State against Miami of Ohio. Name him.
Jeff Hornacek
Olympics
The song “Bugler’s Dream” by Leo Arnaud became famous in the U.S. starting in 1968, when ABC began to use it as a theme song for its Olympic telecast. When NBC won the broadcast rights in 1988, they tried to use different music, but nothing stuck. Finally, they combined the first 45 seconds of “Bugler’s Dream,” with its iconic drumbeat followed by trumpets and brass, and then segued into a new song, “Olympic Fanfare and Theme.” Name the composer of this second song; he's won 25 Grammys, four Golden Globes, and five Academy Awards in a decorated career that includes several collaborations with George Lucas.
John Williams
Football
Marques Colston was the last of 11 players drafted from Long Island’s Hofstra University, which closed down its football program in 2009—but he arguably was not the best-known wide receiver to come out of Hofstra. Name this 1994 graduate, who caught on with a local team in the NFL as an undrafted free agent, and is now on their Ring of Honor.
Wayne Chrebet