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
The so-called “fourth era” of women’s professional golf began in 2013, and was distinguished by the addition of a fifth major championship. Give the name of the resort where this new major is played and for which it is named. Note that this resort shares its name—derived from a nearby town—with a popular brand of spring water.
Evian
Uncategorized
Turkey’s Naim Suleymanoglu, aka Pocket Hercules, is widely considered to have achieved the greatest performance in Olympic weightlifting history at the 1988 Olympics. Two years earlier in Australia, Suleymanoglu defected by fleeing to the Turkish consulate and was later officially released to Turkey after agreeing to pay $1 million to the country from which he defected. Name the country that Suleymanoglu originally represented and defected from. This same nation had gold medals by Mitko Grablev and Angel Guenchev stripped and the remainder of the weightlifting team disqualified from the ‘88 games.
Bulgaria
Obscure
Name the punny two-word endurance/obstacle race series co-founded by Will Dean and Guy Livingstone, which was first held in 2010 and contains features like the “arctic enema,” “electroshock therapy,” “funky monkey,” and “Everest.” (The second word of the name was also uttered twice by Cosmo Kramer, just after advising a man behind him in line that “this baby loves the slop!”)
Tough Mudder