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
Baseball
The New York Mets have two no-hitters in club history. A combined effort on April 29, 2022, by Tylor Megill, Drew Smith, Joely Rodríguez, Seth Lugo, and Edwin Díaz, and a solo effort by what pitcher?
Johan Santana
Football
In August 1939, FDR issued an executive order, moving up the observance of Thanksgiving by a week, which complicated football schedules. For the next two years of “Franksgiving,” the only Thanksgiving Day game was between which two teams, chosen because they played in the same state. In 1942, FDR signed a bill restoring Thanksgiving to the fourth Thursday in November. In 1943, these two teams combined for a season, their new name being a portmanteau of the two nicknames. Again, name both teams.
Pittsburgh Steelers (Pirates), Philadelphia Eagles
Olympics
In the blurry image below from the 1998 downhill event in Nagano, the Austrian skier in midair is experiencing one of the most unbelievable crashes in the history of Olympic skiing. Incredibly, after landing partially on his head and sliding through two layers of B netting, he came back days later to win gold at both the Super G and the Giant Slalom. Who was he?
Hermann Maier