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
Olympics
In a rowing crew, what crewmember does not row but directs the boat, usually shouting instructions to the rowers?
Coxswain
Hockey
The 1993 NHL Entry Draft saw two future Hall of Famers drafted in the first round. One was Chris Pronger, taken #2 by the Hartford Whalers. Who was the other, a winger taken #4 overall who would win the Lady Byng Trophy twice and score over 400 career goals before the cumulative effect of six concussions in his career forced his retirement?
Paul Kariya
Basketball
A much more popular basketball player - Michael Jordan - is infamously not a playable character in the SNES or Genesis versions of NBA Jam, as Midway Games was unable or unwilling to obtain licensing rights to Jordan’s likeness. (Players using the Chicago Bulls simply had to make do with Horace Grant as Scottie Pippen’s teammate.) Instead, Jordan appeared in a different SNES game - a bizarre game where His Airness had to save kidnapped teammates using super-powered basketballs. Yeah. Anyway, fill in the missing word in the game’s title - Michael Jordan: _______ in the Windy City.
Chaos