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
Olympics
Karl Emil Julius Ulrich Salchow, a Swedish man born in 1877, is today most closely associated with what sport?
Figure Skating
Basketball
Not surprisingly, the list of all-time leaders for NBA Finals games played is dominated by players who played at least part of their careers for the Celtics or Lakers. What player is the first player on the list to have never played for either the Lakers or Celtics? He is 22nd all-time with 36 career NBA Finals games played. Hint: He started fewer than a third of those games.
Andre Iguodala
Obscure
A version of dodgeball that does not involve throwing, and is played in geometric wooden "pits," has increased its popularity in schoolyards and parks over the last decade or so. What is this sport, likely introduced to the US by Jewish camp counselors from Israel and named for the Hebrew for "touch touch?"
Ga-Ga