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
A quiz about New York State sports cannot be complete without a trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. One of this year's inductees was born right along the I-90 corridor (in Fort Plain, about 30 miles away from the Hall of Fame), and was credited with being the earliest known African-American professional baseball player, playing from 1895-1898. Name the player, who would also have ownership in three different Negro League teams before dying not far from the Hall, in Frankfort in 1913. The City of Cooperstown would also honor him in 2013 by declaring it “[This Man's] Day” on April 23.
Bud Fowler
Obscure
A website dedicated to what sport has the following text under its “Rules” section: “Play stops when the ball goes out of bounds. If the ball leaves play on a shot, possession is awarded to the team of the closest in-bounds player"?
Lacrosse
Uncategorized
Name the Edmonton Oilers defenseman who caused arguably the most famous own-goal in NHL history, banking the puck off of goalie Grant Fuhr's skate and into his own net in the third period of Game 7 of a 1986 playoff series against the Calgary Flames, thus giving the Flames a lead they would never relinquish and effectively knocking the two-time defending champion Oilers out of the playoffs.
Steve Smith