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
Soccer
The all-time top goalscorer from Gabon (and the top all-time non-German scorer for Borussia Dortmund) has a hyphenated first name, and the player who is currently 53rd on the official NFL career sack list (and no. 1, we assume, among victims of fireworks mishaps) has a hyphenated last name. What name do the players share in the hyphenated parts of their names?
Pierre
Basketball
The Clippers franchise has boasted five NBA rookies of the year, which puts them in a tie for second place all-time. The most recent winner was Blake Griffin in 2011. Name any one of the four who preceded him. They won in the years 1983 (with the San Diego Clippers), 1977, 1974, and 1973 (all with the Buffalo Braves). Two of the four are NBA hall-of-famers, one of the two others was elected to the Italian American Sports Hall of Fame, and the last released an R&B album called “T.C. Finally” in 2007.
Bob McAdoo, Ernie DiGregorio, Adrian Dantley, Terry Cummings
Hockey
When the International Ice Hockey Federation chose its centennial all-star team, the third-highest vote getter—just behind Slava Fetisov and Wayne Gretzky—was a goaltender with three Olympic gold medals (and one notable silver, in which he was pulled in the first period in a critical game) who is now the president of the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia. Name him.
Vladislav Tretiak