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
Uncategorized
The Monte Carlo circuit, host to the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix, is unlike most other race tracks that refer to the sequential number of the corners. Rather, each corner is given a name, typically for a building or historical feature at that point of the track. Turn one at Monte Carlo is named for a church just on the outside of the barrier. This church, in turn, is named after a saint who in 303 was martyred at the age of 20. Name this female saint who is the patron saint of Monaco and Corsica.
St. Devote (San Devote, San Devota)
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The WWE’s rise in popularity in the 1980’s can be partially linked to the frequent involvement of what multi-Grammy-winning pop star? The highlights of this singer’s wrestling accolades include a memorable “Piper’s Pit” segment with WWE Hall-of-Famers Captain Lou Albano and Roddy Piper, managing Wendi Richter during her Women’s Title match at the first WrestleMania, and hiring Hulk Hogan as a “bodyguard” for the Grammy awards. Some of these events are currently being dramatized in NBC’s Young Rock, where a current WWE superstar plays the singer in question.
Cyndi Lauper
Basketball
Earlier we talked about how maybe BASEketball didn’t age all that well…but man, the message of 1994’s Blue Chips REALLY doesn’t age well. The real villain in that movie is college basketball players making money! But anyway, there is a villain of sorts in the “big game” at the end of the movie between fictional Western University and a very real Power 4 school, led in the movie by its real legendary coach. This coach was certainly a villain on the day the game was filmed, delaying the start of filming because he was mad about a discussion with a TV reporter he had that day. Then he messed up at least one take of Western’s game-winning play because he wanted to prove a team he coached would have stopped the play. (Thankfully, Shaq was eventually allowed to dunk the ball so everyone could go home.) None of this is surprising given this coach's history of competitiveness and controversy. Name the coach.
Bobby Knight