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
What initials, as of last weekend, complete this chronological sequence starting in 2017: LH, LH, LH, LH, MV, MV, MV, MV, ___
LN (Lando Norris)
Soccer
Name the woman who was sidelined with an ACL injury for most of the 2022-23 season, which will prevent her from winning the Ballon D’or Feminin for a third straight time. She is, however, the only player to win it twice since the award was first given in 2018.
Alexia Putellas
Baseball
The 1959 announcement of the “Continental League,” set to begin play in 1961, was enough of a threat to Major League Baseball that they added four new expansion teams in 1961 and 1962 to stop the threat—successfully. Name the lawyer who proposed the new league and forced MLB’s hand. (As it happens, he was born in Washington Heights, not points east.)
William Shea