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 the eight years between 1997 and 2004, six different racehorses won both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes before failing to win the Belmont Stakes. Name any one.
Silver Charm, Real Quiet, Charismatic, War Emblem, Funny Cide, Smarty Jones
Obscure
Name the Italian mountaineer ranked first on Climbinghouse.com’s list of the greatest of all time, on the strength of a resume that includes making the first solo ascent of Everest, the first ascent of Everest without oxygen, and being the first man to summit all 14 peaks over 8,000 feet in the world, all without oxygen. His name was also used on the fake ID by Darren Jesse, a drummer for Ben Folds Five, when he was a teenager.
Reinhold Messner
Games
Name the card game—derived from the melding and trick-taking game bezique—in which the special 48-card deck includes two cards of each suit, but only for the 9, 10, jack, queen, king, and ace. The origin of the game’s name isn’t clear, but one theory is that it derives from a French word meaning “binoculars,” or, similarly, two Latin words meaning “double” and “eye.”
Pinochle