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
Obscure
Name the Italian mountaineer ranked first on Climbinghouse.com’s list of the greatest of all time, on the strength of a resume that includes making the first solo ascent of Everest, the first ascent of Everest without oxygen, and being the first man to summit all 14 peaks over 8,000 feet in the world, all without oxygen. His name was also used on the fake ID by Darren Jesse, a drummer for Ben Folds Five, when he was a teenager.
Reinhold Messner
Uncategorized
The Carolina Hurricanes have retired the jerseys of three players.
Choose one, and give both the name and the player's number.
Ron Francis 10, Glen Wesley 2, Rod Brind’amour 17
Uncategorized
Of the six players who have defeated Nadal at least twice in grand slams, perhaps the most unlikely is a man who got his two wins 12 years apart at Wimbledon, first in 2005 and next in 2017. This fellow lefty is by far the most successful tennis player ever from his (very small) country. Name him.
Gilles Muller