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
Hockey
Starting with the 2009-10 NHL season, two players have led the NHL in assists for a single season more than once. One player managed it three times, from 2009-10 through 2011-12, and another won in 2016-17 and again in 2020-21. One player is retired after spending 17 seaons with the same NHL team, and one is active, having played six seasons to date with the same NHL team. Name either player.
Henrik Sedin, Connor McDavid
Soccer
Florentino Perez presided over a period at Real Madrid in which they signed one megastar per season from 2000-2006, known as the "Galacticos" era. What Portuguese legend and Ballon d'Or winner is widely regarded as the first of these "galactic" signings, coming from Barcelona for a quaint-sounding 60 million Euro in 2000?
Luis Figo
Soccer
Name the seer who received death threats from his own people and was offered official state protection by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero after correctly predicting that Spain would win its semifinal World Cup match against Germany in 2010. This reluctant prophet was also accused by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of “spreading western propaganda and superstition.”
Paul the Octopus