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
Football
Name any one of the four NFL players who have shared an AP Most Valuable Player award in the Super Bowl era. (The ties occurred in 1997 and 2003.)
Peyton Manning, Steve McNair, Brett Favre, Barry Sanders
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In the 1988 Wales Conference finals, New Jersey Devils coach Jim Schoenfeld had a postgame confrontation with a referee and uttered one of the funniest insults in recorded history. The official thought Schoenfeld had pushed him, causing a fall. Schoenfeld thought the ref had fallen on his own and yelled, "Good, 'cause you fell, you fat pig. Have another doughnut! Have another doughnut!"
Who was that crestFALLEN referee, who currently serves as TNT's NHL rules analyst?
Don Koharski
Baseball
Between 2009 and 2012, a much more affable slugger made answer #4 look rooted by comparison. In those four years he moved from the White Sox to the Dodgers, then the Twins, then the Indians, then the Phillies, before concluding his career with Baltimore. During all this, he managed to finish 18th in the MVP voting in 2010 with Minnesota. Who is he?
Jim Thome