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
Jamal Crawford tops the list of players with the most career points in the NBA (19,419) without a single All-Star appearance. Numbers 10 and 17 on that list are a former Arizona Wildcat who made the All-Rookie second team in 2002 for the Nets, and a Mississippi native who received the same honor in 2005 for the Boston Celtics. What last name do they share?
Jefferson
Basketball
In the early days of the NCAA tournament, it was more common for the Most Outstanding Player award to be given to someone on a losing team. But it has only happened twice since 1971. The most recent time in the men's tournament was in 1983 when Akeem Olajuwon took home the award while losing to the "Cardiac Pack" of NC State. It more recently happened in the women's tournament in 1991 for a University of Virginia player. She has since become a successful coach winning 3 NCAA titles. Who is this player?
Dawn Staley
Obscure
The last place finisher in Major League Soccer, the cellar dweller in many Australian and New Zealand professional leagues, and the worst team in rugby’s Six Nations Championship are just some examples of entities that would receive what ignominious “prize”—sometimes real and sometimes metaphorical—which was first awarded at the University of Cambridge for poor academic performance?
Wooden Spoon