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
Basketball
The idea struck him in a French hotel room — no studio, no instrument, just an answering machine back home to capture the melody and the result became one of the most recognizable sports themes in television history. SNL even gave it some unofficial lyrics, including "Gimme, gimme, gimme the ball because I'm gonna dunk it!" Name the composer and the song title.
John Tesh - Roundball Rock
Uncategorized
One of the most famous bits of "umpiring" occurred in Game 5 of the 1997 NLCS. The umpire made multiple questionable called strikes throughout the game, mostly for left-handed batters with curve balls that seemed to cross somewhere in the middle of the right-handed batter's box. The most memorable one of course was the final pitch of the game (the pitcher's 143rd!) - a called strike 3 on a 3-2 count, with a flummoxed batter standing at the plate. Name the following 4 people associated with this strikeout IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER: Umpire, Pitcher, Catcher, Batter. TO BE CLEAR: WE ARE LOOKING FOR FOUR NAMES, IN A SPECIFIC ORDER. (And yes, last names are sufficient.)
Eric Gregg, Livan Hernandez, Charles Johnson, Fred McGriff
Basketball
While the game in the previous question was strange but beloved, this game is strange and despised. The first basketball game on the SNES, it had the name “Combat Basketball.” Players could play as violent on defense as they wanted while dodging bombs and other obstacles. This sounds fun but it definitely was not! It’s viewed as one of the worst games on the system. The game was endorsed by a fitting player though. Which notoriously physical defensive stalwart lent his name to this awful game?
Bill Laimbeer