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
Hockey
Excluding Ron Francis' time with the Whalers, who has the most goals in Carolina Hurricanes history? His brother, still on the team, has 178 himself.
Eric Staal
Racing & Combat
As a teenager in the late 1930s, Walker Smith Jr. circumvented the AAU’s 18-year age restriction by borrowing a birth certificate from an older friend in order to enter his first boxing tournament. The name would stick with Smith for his entire legendary career, spanning 85 undefeated matches as an amateur and a professional record of 173-19-6. What was the name of Smith’s friend? First and last name are required, but note that Smith’s saccharine sobriquet surfaced separately.
Ray Robinson
Baseball
Of the eight regions currently represented in the American side of the bracket at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, PA, name the one that is not listed here: New England, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest, West. (AST researchers were unable to determine whether this region uses the term “homes plate.” Probably not, though.)
Great Lakes