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
Hockey
Major championship fights including Dempsey-Firpo and Dempsey-Tunney were promoted in the 1920s by what man, whose nickname also gave rise to the New York Rangers' team name when he was president of Madison Square Garden?
Tex Rickard
Soccer
In the decade of the 1980s (from ‘79-’80 to ‘88-’89), Liverpool’s Ian Rush led England's top domestic soccer league in scoring one season (‘84) and came close on several other occasions. But the only player to lead the league in goals twice that decade did so with Leicester in ‘84-’85 and again with Everton in ‘85-’86. He’d do it once more in ‘89-’90, this time with Tottenham, and he became a famous broadcaster after retirement. Name him.
Gary Lineker
Baseball
Name the franchise that postponed games on April 27 and 28, 2015, after violent riots in the western part of the city, and broke a 131-year-old record on April 29 for lowest paid attendance when they held the third game of the series with no spectators.
Baltimore Orioles