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
What quarterback led Stanford to an upset victory in the 1972 Rose Bowl over an undefeated Big Ten champion. Jim Plunkett? Not so fast my friend. It is not Jim Plunkett.
Don Bunce
Baseball
What’s the most common name for the rarely used high-arcing off-speed pitch—an exaggerated form of a changeup, both slower and higher—whose etymology is disputed, but which may come from the Hebrew word for “zero,” or may have just been a nonsense word invented by Pirates left fielder Maurice Van Robays, who reportedly said, “________ ain’t nothing, and that’s a nothing pitch.”
Eephus
Olympics
In the history of the winter Olympics, only five women have landed a triple axel in competition, with the latest being Kamila Valieva and Wakaba Higuchi in Beijing. Name the first woman to pull it off as part of her silver medal showing in the ‘92 Games in Albertville. Her medal was the first for a woman from an Asian nation in the history of women’s figure skating, and it was 18 years before another woman would land a triple axel at the Olympics.
Midori Ito