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
Racing & Combat
In the image below, Jumping Joe Savoldi is executing what maneuver? The move is thought to have originated with him, although Abe “Hebrew Hercules” Coleman was using the move around the same time.
Dropkick
Soccer
This scoreboard, from Aug. 6, 2012, in Manchester, England, preserves a moment in time just before a game-winning goal scored by which player? Some argue the game would never have reached this point if not for Abby Wambach's clever manipulation of a referee. (Wambach did not score the goal in question.)
(Image description: A scoreboard, with team CAN with three goals, team USA with three goals, a clock on the left at 120:00, and a second clock on the right, next to the words ET2, at 2:18.)
Alex Morgan
Basketball
Prudence Crandall (1803-1890) was an American schoolteacher who ran the first school for black girls in the U.S. in the northeastern town of Canterbury. In 1995, she was named by the state general assembly as the “Official Heroine” of her state. In 2009, a state senator nominated another woman for the same position—a native of Chino, CA who, at that point, was spending her time between Phoenix and Moscow. Name her.
Diana Taurasi