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
Racing & Combat
In October 2019, Eliud Kipchoge became the first man to accomplish what specific feat, with the aid of a 41-person team and an electronic pacer?
Ran a sub-two-hour marathon
Obscure
In the year 532CE, the supporters of two chariot teams joined forces to rebel against Emperor Justinian. To put this into perspective, this is like if Giants and Jets fans—or University of Michigan and Michigan State fans, or Dodgers and A’s fans—had a long history of extremely violent hooliganism towards each other and then joined forces to try to overthrow the United States government. The resulting “Nika Riots” left an estimated 30,000 dead. What were those two chariot teams (and their supporters) called?
The Blues AND the Greens
Uncategorized
South Korea reached the 2002 semifinals as cohost with some measure of luck or help. In particular, Byron Moreno’s officiating in the round of 16 against Italy has been regarded as incompetent, if not corrupt—incorrectly ruling out a Damiano Tommasi goal for offside, then sending off Francesco Totti for diving when he was clearly fouled. Moreno, later sentenced to 2½ years in an American prison for smuggling heroin, was from what country, which made its World Cup finals debut in 2002?
Ecuador