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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
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Note: In this quiz, you may look up any answer you want except for the tiebreaker. It is also permissible to collaborate with other AST members in order to rig the priority scoring, or attempt any other strategic gambit.
Name the player who wore no. 23 for the Chicago Bulls during their title runs in the early to mid-'90s.
Michael Jordan
Games
In the 1840 short story “A Hero of Our Time,” Miguel Lermontov penned the first known description of a “game,” of sorts, that wouldn’t get its current name, at least in print, for another 97 years. That name, possibly invented by the writer Georges Surdez, contains a reference to another game of chance. What game did Lermontov and Surdez write about?
Russian Roulette
Basketball
Name the co-captain of the first ever U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team in 1976 who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama 36 years later, in 2012.
Pat Summitt