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 1971, an American athlete named Glenn Cowan missed his team bus from the practice facility, and rode instead on a shuttle that carried the Chinese team. Although most of them ignored him, one Chinese athlete, Zhuang Zedong, eventually spoke to him through an interpreter and gifted him a silk-screen portrait of the Huangshan Mountains. This was the catalyst for the entire U.S. team receiving an invitation to visit China—the first official American delegation to do so since 1949. What sport did Cowan and Zedong play?
Table tennis (ping pong)
Football
What route run by wide receivers, described as "moderate to deep" by Wikipedia, involves the player cutting at an angle toward the middle of the field after running 10-20 yards upfield? It is essentially the mirror of a "corner" route.
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Football
Step one: Start with this order of college bowl games: Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, Orange.
Step two: Figure out the team that has won each of these games the most times.
Step three: Find the state each team is from.
Step four: Take the first letter of each of those four states in the order of games above.
What four-letter word, also heard in the disparate worlds of mafia and music, are you left with?
Capo