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
Obscure
What now WWE superstar, born in Ireland, turned on his Apollo 55 tag partner, Ryusuke Taguchi, to become the first leader of Bullet Club, a longtime villainous stable in New Japan Pro Wrestling?
Prince Devitt (Finn Bálor)
Uncategorized
Arguably the most famous call in baseball history is Russ Hodges screaming “the Giants win the pennant!” over and over on Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard ‘Round The World” home run that beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in a 1951 National League playoff. Since he was the New York Giants’ lead radio announcer, it’s understandable why Hodges went berserk. As it happens, Hodges’ normal radio partner was not with him on this broadcast, because he had been hired to call the game on national television instead. Who was Russ Hodges’ usual radio partner on Giants games, who eventually went onto a legendary career as the radio voice of a different MLB team?
Ernie Harwell
Football
The Pac-12 defensive player of the year award in football was first given out in 1983, when it was shared by Ricky Hunley and future NFL head coach Ron Rivera (when the conference was known as the Pac-10). To date, only two recipients of the award are no longer living. One died in 2012 in Oceanside, CA, and another died in 2004 near a village called Sperah. Name both.
Junior Seau, Pat Tillman