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
Olympics
In the following list, three athletes have been redacted, and they all come from the same country. Name the country...and note that along with a shared country, they share another competitive distinction from the swimmers, canoeists, fencers, runners, and gymnasts that make up the rest of the list:
Michael Phelps (28), Larissa Latynina (18), _________ (15), Nikolai Andrianov (15), ___________ (13), Boris Shakhlin (13), Edoardo Mangiarotti (13), Takashi Ono (13), Paavo Nurmi (12), ___________ (12), Birgit Fischer (12), Sawao Kato (12), Jenny Thompson (12), Ryan Lochte (12), Dara Torres (12), Alexei Nemov (12), Natalie Coughlin (12).
Norway
Games
Who became the first man to hold the title of World Chess Champion, World Rapid Champion, and World Blitz Champion simultaneously in 2014?
Magnus Carlsen
Basketball
If you exclude Oakland’s Greg Kampe from the conversation, what NCAA D1 men’s basketball coach, recently eliminated from the Big Dance, is currently the longest tenured? (Greg’s got him beat by 11 years.)
Tom Izzo