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
Country Club
On September 11, 1875, a 24-year-old man received a telegram informing him that his wife was entering a difficult labor and he should return home immediately from North Berwick. He did so, across the Firth of Forth, but discovered on his return that his wife and child had both passed. The man himself passed four months later, on Christmas Day, due to a pulmonary hemorrhage. Who was he? (Your answer must distinguish him from similarly named figures.)
Young Tom Morris
Football
In a Progressive ad, what journeyman quarterback, who played in an NFL game as recently as the 2025 season, is called upon to be a back-up “listener,” telling a woman discussing her relationship issues, “You’re not a mechanic. It’s not your job to fix him”?
Teddy Bridgewater
Games
In the 1840 short story “A Hero of Our Time,” Miguel Lermontov penned the first known description of a “game,” of sorts, that wouldn’t get its current name, at least in print, for another 97 years. That name, possibly invented by the writer Georges Surdez, contains a reference to another game of chance. What game did Lermontov and Surdez write about?
Russian Roulette