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
Basketball
A passage from the aforementioned song “SuperSonics”: Fans can rattle the roof/Nothing but net ______. What two-word nickname of a Sonics forward fills the blank? (Note: Be sure you give the nickname, not the name, of the referenced player. And if you need a hint: He was also nicknamed “Sleepy” and once hit a game-winning three-pointer in the finals against the Bulls with a team who is not the Sonics.)
Big Smooth
Uncategorized
One of this SNL veteran’s credited roles was as a hockey goalie, so maybe it’s not surprising that he’s become a go-to for impressions of sports people such as David Ortiz, Charles Barkley, Lavar Ball and Deion Sanders.
Kenan Thompson
Olympics
Among the lesser known biographical details of a certain five-time Olympic gold medalist were that he and his ethnically German family immigrated to the U.S. from Hungary before his first birthday, his father abandoned his family when he was in eighth grade, forcing him to leave school and work to support his family, and he saved multiple people from drowning on two separate occasions. Eventually, even the gold medals became something of a lesser known biographical detail. Name him.
Johnny Weissmuller