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
Soccer
Which country has won the most Africa Cup of Nations titles, with seven since the competition began in 1957? Despite its continental success, this country has never won a World Cup match.
Egypt
Racing & Combat
Amanda Nunes is the current champion of the UFC women’s bantamweight division. Starting with the inaugural champion in that division in Dec. 2012, only three other women—all of them American—have held that title. Name two of the three. (Free hint: Cris Cyborg is not one of them.)
Ronda Rousey, Holly Holm, Miesha Tate
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POINT AFTER
It was always a good Thursday in my house when Steve Rushin’s “Air and Space” column usurped SI’s back page from the likes of Rick Reilly. One of Rushin’s endearing quirks is his semi-serious belief that athletes’ names can be anagrammed to reveal truths about them, and who could argue with such examples as “Eternal Antichrist” (Christian Laettner)? If Rushin had written up soccer’s 2022 summer transfer window, he might have noted that Raheem Sterling has departed Man City to play among “Trashier Legmen” “Mere Earthlings” at Chelsea. In this same Rushin-esque spirit, Serie A foes may consider Juventus’s 2022 acquisition of which veteran winger to be an “Alarming Idea”? First and last name required.
Angel Di Maria