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
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Sample Questions

Basketball

Alaska is the only state without a single Division 1 basketball program, but there are four states which boast just one, and in each of these, the school bears the name of the state. Name the school fitting this criteria whose D-1 basketball alums include Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle (who transferred to Virginia for his junior season) and former Bulls head coach Jim Boylen. Notable non-basketball alums include Paul Kariya, John Tortorella, and Stephen King.

University of Maine

Hockey

Since the first NHL entry draft in 1963, three goaltenders have heard their names called as the #1 overall selection. Name two of the three.

Michel Plasse, Rick DiPietro, Marc-Andre Fleury

Country Club

Starting with Rod Laver, who won three grand slams in a single calendar year in 1969, there have been six men to accomplish the three-slams-in-one-year feat in the open era. Fill in the blank in the following list with the missing player. (Interestingly, the other slam winner in '88, at Wimbledon, was also a former world no. 1 from Sweden.)

 

1969: Rod Laver, Australia

1974: Jimmy Connors, U.S.

1988: __________, Sweden

2004, 2006, 2007: Roger Federer, Switzerland

2010: Rafael Nadal, Spain

2011, 2015: Novak Djokovic, Serbia

Mats Wilander