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
Basketball
The 1970 NBA Draft featured eight future Hall of Famers across 19 rounds. Which one of them was drafted last, taken by Detroit in the 8th round? He would never play for the Pistons, as he signed with the ABA's Kentucky Colonels, where he'd become the league's second all-time leading scorer.
Dan Issel
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
In 1988, West Virginia had its best shot at a national title. Led by its star quarterback, the mountaineers were undefeated in the regular season and met Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl, who were coached by Follansbee, WV born Lou Holtz. Unfortunately, West Virginia’s quarterback was injured on the third play of the game and ended up losing the game. Name the quarterback.
Major Harris