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
Games
In the card game of cribbage, the ultimate starting hand of 4 cards would be three fives and a jack. If the deck is then cut and the cut card is revealed to be the final 5 and it’s the same suit as the jack, you have yourself the perfect hand of cribbage – a scenario many cribbage players can only dream of. When you count your hand at the end of the round, how many points would this hand of cards score for you? Two of the best hockey players in the world, the 2020 and 2024 Hart Memorial Trophy winners, sport this jersey number.
29
Uncategorized
Perhaps it was the luck of the Irish, but the United States won their first WJC gold medal in 2004 on a crazy play where the winning goal was “scored” by an American forward who, after touching the puck while failing to receive an errant pass, pressured Canadian goalie Marc-Andre Fleury into shooting a loose puck off of his own defender’s body on a clearing attempt, causing the puck to roll into an empty net. Who is the lucky forward who got credit for the game-winning goal?
Patrick O’Sullivan
Obscure
In February 1987, the same American man appeared on the cover of both Time and Sports Illustrated (the latter with President Ronald Reagan) after leading the team that defeated Kookaburra III in events that were later depicted in the film Wind starring Matthew Modine. Name him.
Dennis Conner