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
Baseball
Few things are as funny as an announcer malapropism, such as this one from San Diego Padres broadcaster Jerry Coleman, on a deep fly ball: “Winfield goes back to the wall … he hits his head on the wall! And it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base!!!” Jerry Coleman may have been the West Coast “King of the Malaprop,” but another baseball announcer back east often gave him a run for his money. Among this announcer’s numerous bloopers was a heartfelt attempt to send out good holiday wishes: “It’s Father’s Day today, and so to all of you fathers out there, we wish you a very happy birthday.” But prior to his five decades as a beloved broadcaster, he was a terrific power hitter, leading the Major Leagues in home runs for six straight seasons and becoming the first player in National League history to hit 50 home runs in two different seasons. Who was this Cadillac-driving home run hitter, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame as a player in 1975?
Ralph Kiner
Racing & Combat
On Sept. 11, 2019, the New York Times broke a story on an apparent cover-up which began in the spring of 2018 in Arcadia, CA (in a location that was once part of an 1845 land grant called Rancho Santa Anita). The story included the following line: “He tested positive for the drug scopolamine.” To which mononymic star does the “he” in that sentence refer?
Justify
Uncategorized
Fed up with the growing pay gap between men and women in professional tennis, in September 1970 a group of brave women formed a breakaway circuit sponsored by Virginia Slims, which would eventually evolve into the current-day WTA Tour. How many women were in this original group?
9