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
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At the bitterly contested 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, a supporter of arch conservative Barry Goldwater and a supporter of the more moderate Nelson Rockefeller nearly came to blows. The Goldwater supporter was held back by his wife, even while the Rocky fan, a baseball Hall of Famer, shouted "Turn him loose, lady!" Name this player, who spent the entirety of his major league career in Rockefeller's home state of New York, and said that Goldwater's nomination gave him "a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany."
Jackie Robinson
Football
The list below, which begins in 1933, takes us chronologically to 1968, and needs just three men to bring it to the present day. Name any one of those three men:
Forrest Douds, Luby DiMeolo, Joe Bach, John McNally, Walt Kiesling, Bert Bell, Aldo Donelli, Walt Kieling, Jim Leonard, Jock Sutherland, John Michelosen, Joe Bach, Walt Kiesling, Buddy Parker, Mike NIxon, Bill Austin, _________, ___________, ___________.
Chuck Noll, Bill Cowher, Mike Tomlin
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President Barack Obama filled out annual brackets for the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournament while in office. In 2015, his women’s bracket projected that an 8-seed would make a shocking run to the Final Four; it was surely just a coincidence that his niece was a freshman on that squad. Name the school (which went on to blow up POTUS’s bracket by losing to 1-seed Maryland in the second round).
Princeton