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
Name the so-called “Ninth Wonder of the World” (Andre the Giant was already the eighth) who won the Intercontinental championship in 1999 by defeating Jeff Jarrett, appeared in Playboy twice, and died of an overdose in 2016.
Chyna
Soccer
Austrian coach Karl Rappan, who coached Switzerland in the ‘30s and ‘40s, invented a defensive system known as verrou, the French word for “door bolt,” leading the team to World Cup quarterfinal appearances in ‘34 and ‘38. That system evolved over the decades, and was seen to reach its philosophical culmination with the introduction of a sweeper positioned behind the line of defenders, and was famously employed by the Italian team to win the ‘68 European Championship and reach the ‘70 World Cup final. What was this system called in Italy?
Catenaccio
Olympics
In a 1984 Saturday Night Live sketch, Harry Shearer and Martin Short parody what sport? (In a smaller role, Christopher Guest appears as a character who bears more than a passing similarity to Corky St. Clair, 12 years before Waiting for Guffman was released.)
(Men's) Synchronized Swimming