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
Shaquille O’Neal is 8th on the NBA all-time scoring list, and 10th on the combined NBA/ABA all-time scoring list (which compiles career totals of points scored in both leagues). Name the two players who jump ahead of Shaq to place 8th and 9th on the combined list. These men are 70th and 9th, respectively, on the NBA-only list.
Julius Erving, Moses Malone
Football
The next big wave of conference football realignment will hit Division 1 in the 2024-25 season, but as of July 1 this year—ahead of the departure of Oklahoma and Texas and the arrival of four Pac-12 teams—the Big 12 gained four new teams. Name two of them.
Houston, Cincinnati, BYU, UCF
Obscure
In the regional backyard game quoits (or qwaits), players throw one-pound rubber rings at a metal pin mounted on a heavy 24-inch square slab of what material — also the namesake of the Pennsylvania region where the game is most popular?
Slate