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
Soccer
Give the name of the most successful soccer club based in Rio de Janeiro, with 10 Brazilian championships in its long history. Despite sounding very much like the name of a bird, the club’s name stems from a nearby beach named for the invaders in an 1599. (The invading party was actually Dutch, but they were known in Brazil by another ethnic name.)
Flamengo
Games
What game’s regulation dimensions are 22 feet long by 20 inches wide? (Adding in the cradle area, it becomes roughly 23’ by 31.”)
Table Shuffleboard
Olympics
Ramat Gan Stadium (15 times) and Teddy Stadium (four times) have been the two main host venues since 1950 for a competition that takes place in what country? Larry Brown won a gold medal in basketball for America in 1961 at this competition, three years before his Olympic gold, and at age 15, weighing just 130 pounds, Mark Spitz won four gold medals in 1965, and six more four years later. (Again, you are naming the country.)
Israel