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
Basketball
One of Spike Lee’s first forays into NBA culture came when he starred alongside Michael Jordan in a series of Nike commercials in which he reprised his role from the 1986 film She’s Gotta Have It. What was the full name of Lee’s character? First and last name required.
Mars Blackmon
Baseball
According to a popular story that may or may not be true, Brooklyn Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson agreed to try to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane while his team was at spring training in Daytona Beach in 1915. The aviator, Ruth Law, realized too late she forgot the baseball, and instead dropped what food item…which exploded in Robinson’s face when he tried to catch it, and lived on in name?
Grapefruit
Football
What USC alum and Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year went on to a long NFL career complete with 72 touchdown passes and 92 interceptions? After spending much of his early career as a starter, this player served as a backup to quarterbacks like Troy Aikman, Ty Detmer, Brad Johnson, and Jake Delhomme.
Rodney Peete