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
Soccer
Fill in the blank with the missing word from this 1886 proposal by N. Lane Jackson, founder of the English amateur soccer club Corinithians, which seems to be the origin of a term still in use today: “That all players taking part for England in future international matches be presented with a white silk _____ with red rose embroidered on the front.”
Cap
Olympics
The organization formerly known as FINA—Federation Internationale de Natation—is the international federation recognized by the IOC as the highest governing body in a particular discipline. Today, FINA is known as "World ______." Fill in the blank with the missing word.
Aquatics
Racing & Combat
Great Britain nearly went the entire 20th century without a world heavyweight boxing champion, but that changed in 1992 when Riddick Bowe forfeited his belt. Name the drought-breaking British champion who succeeded him, and who held the WBC heavyweight belt off and on for the next decade while notching victories over the likes of Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson, and Vitali Klitschko.
Lennox Lewis