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
Vuong Dang Phong was a colonel in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam who spent the entirety of the Vietnam War fighting against the Viet Cong and the NVA. After Saigon fell, he was placed in a re-education camp at Hoang Lien Son Province, where he died in 1976—a fact that one American friend who fought beside him wouldn’t discover until the late ‘90s. What was Col. Phong’s nickname?
Tiger
Racing & Combat
In 2013 and 2015, Nairo Quintana finished second for his country in the Tour de France. In 2017, continuing the odd year pattern, Quintana’s countryman Rigoberto Uran finished second. Two years later, in 2019, a third rider from their country, Egan Bernal, broke through and won the TdF. Name the country.
Colombia
Football
Name the first player in NFL history to rush for over 2,000 yards in a single season, eclipsing the mark by just three yards. This player remains the only man to reach the milestone in just 14 games.
O.J. Simpson