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
Games
What Konami title for arcades and the 8-bit NES featuring the Chicago Ox, the Los Angeles Breakers, the Boston Frogs, and the New York Eagles is almost certainly the best-known video game named for a sports violation?
Double Dribble
Obscure
Among the nine American metropolitan areas with one and only one professional sports teams in each of the NBA, MLB, NFL, and NHL, name the city with the most collective letters in the nicknames of the four teams—34, to be exact. (Please note that by this criteria, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area are excluded for having too many teams.)
Washington, D.C.
Uncategorized
In one of the most impressive feats in Olympic history, what Czech (known as the "Czech Locomotive") won both the 5000 meter and 10,000 meter runs at the 1956 Melbourne games, then entered (and won!) the marathon at the last minute? In 2013, "Runner's World" magazine selected him as the Greatest Runner of All Time.
Emil Zatopek