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
Basketball
The “Euroscar” Award is given out each year to Europe’s best male basketball player. It can be presented to anyone with European citizenship, regardless of where he plays. Between the years 1988 and 1999, only three players won the award, each of them at least three times, and each of them at least once for both a European and an NBA team. Name two of those three.
Arvydas Sabonis, Drazen Petrovic, Toni Kukoc
Olympics
The first female gymnast from outside Eastern Europe or the Soviet Union to win the individual all-round gold medal in women’s gymnastics benefited from the 1984 boycott of the Olympics by the Soviet Union and Soviet bloc countries, but still had to outduel Romania’s Ecaterina Szabo and score perfect 10s on the vault and floor exercise to close it out by 0.05 points. Who was she?
Mary Lou Retton
Uncategorized
Name the first quarterback in NFL history to have started and lost a Super Bowl for multiple franchises. As a collegian at Berkeley, he never managed a winning record across three varsity seasons, despite being coached by future Super Bowl mainstays Bill Walsh and Marv Levy.
Craig Morton