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
Point guard and sixth-man Sam Cassell played 104 games in the '94-'95 season (including the playoffs) but started only one. Ten years later, two of his college teammates would combine to make 72 starts at point guard for the Rockets. Name either.
Charlie Ward or Bob Sura
Uncategorized
Nigel Richards is widely acclaimed as the greatest tournament Scrabble player of all time, having won five World championships, five North American championships, and five French-language championships—despite not speaking French. Richards makes his home in one country—where he might have picked up the basics of sepak takraw, the national sport—but was born in another country—where he might have learned to dance the haka in support of his homeland’s national teams. (Both of the Hacks of this Friendly have met Mr. Richards, and can virtually guarantee that he has never done either.) Name both countries.
Malaysia, New Zealand
Football
John Matuszak, the number one overall pick in the 1973 NFL Draft, is probably best-known for starring as a mistreated member of the Fratelli crime family in what 1985 cult-classic film?
The Goonies