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
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Remember Zelmo Beaty? Already a two-time NBA all-star when he defected to the ABA in 1969, Beaty’s 13-year career between the two leagues earned him Basketball Hall of Fame induction in 2016. Though the words “Remember Zelmo Beaty” now function as a signoff for the Slate sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, they were initially spoken as an on-air challenge to Shaquille O’Neal by which well-known television personality? The tv personality in question is closely associated with the city where the ABA held its 30-year anniversary reunion in 1997.
David Letterman
Racing & Combat
The last driver ever signed by Enzo Ferrari, who won the 1989 Brazilian GP in his first race for the team? It began a two-year stint that forever endeared him to the tifosi, who nicknamed him "Il Leone" for his aggressive driving.
Nigel Mansell
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Most of us would love getting compared to a hall-of-fame athlete, but don’t tell Jim Everett that! The former Rams and Saints quarterback famously flipped a table and shoved then-ESPN host Jim Rome to the ground during an interview on ESPN2 in 1994. This followed a month-long bit of Rome calling Everett a different name, a back-handed reference to another athlete. What name did Rome repeatedly call Everett during that interview? (You can give just the first name, or the athlete the bit referred to.)
Chris / Chris Evert