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
Country Club
In September 2015, the media center at the U.S. Open was renamed in honor of a man who would die six months later at age 86, but who, in his long career, covered tennis in print for the Boston Herald and Boston Globe, and on television for WGBH in Boston, CBS Sports, NBC, PBS, and ESPN. Name him.
Bud Collins
Country Club
The most recent American winner at the French Open was what Atlanta-born 21-year-old, who won the women’s doubles tournament with Katerina Siniakova last year?
Coco Gauff
Soccer
“______ ______ on the shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming
Thirty years of hurt
Never stopped us dreaming…”
These lyrics come from a song released in 1996, and while the singers expressed optimism, the “thirty years” could now be accurately changed to “fifty years”...and then some. Fill in the blanks with the two words missing from the line quoted above.
Three Lions