Late Morning Trivia! [Curling Style]
The USA is about to play for an Olympic Gold in Curling. Lets show our knowledge of the game!
Please pick one question to answer:
1. Where did the sport of Curling originate?
2. How much (approx) does a Curling Stone Weigh?
3. What does it mean when a Curling stone is called "the Hammer"?
4. Curling is also referred to as "the Roaring Game". Why?
5. Curling is a very polite game. What is unique about what happens before & after each game?
6. There are 2 hog lines in Curling. What do they mean?
7. What do you call the part of the Curling stone that is used as a handle?
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5mo
1. Where did the sport of Curling originate? Scotland
2. How much (approx) does a standard Curling Stone Weigh? 38-44 pounds
3. What does it mean when a Curling stone is called "the Hammer"? The Hammer is the last stone thrown in an end.
4. Curling is also referred to as "the Roaring Game". Why? The sound of the curling stone makes on the ice sounds like a Roar.
5. Curling is a very polite game. What is unique about what happens before & after each game? The teams shake hands at the beginning and end of the game
6. There are 2 hog lines in Curling. What do they mean? The near hog line is the line you have to release the stone behind. The far hog line is the line the stone must completely pass to remain in play.
7. What do you call the part of the Curling stone that is used as a handle? The Peg!
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5mo
4 because of the rumbing sound the rocks may sliding down the rink...
5. for the club down here the winners buy the losers alcohlic drinks always.
7 Grip? I forget.
Actually own a sweep and curling shoes, one slidy and one not. Probaby should go down and do one of the saturday morning itnro courses again, lottta fun, not sure why I stoppe other than every year wanders in different directions...
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5mo
The year Shuster's team won and then had a disasterous Olympics, and have never heard the term "peg" used for the handle on a rock.
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5mo
Ones.
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5mo
1. Where did the sport of Curling originate?
2. How much (approx) does a Curling Stone Weigh?
3. What does it mean when a Curling stone is called "the Hammer"?
4. Curling is also referred to as "the Roaring Game". Why?
5. Curling is a very polite game. What is unique about what happens before & after each game?
6. There are 2 hog lines in Curling. What do they mean?
7. What do you call the part of the Curling stone that is used as a handle?
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5mo
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5mo
...stepping onto and cracking the ice.
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5mo
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5mo
for fun - and they served beer. Remember that.
BTW - there were 8 of us and two competitors broke bones. It is not for the meek believe it or not. Neither injury was beer-related.
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5mo
athletes
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5mo
Not doing another one - my bones are 15 years more fragile.
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5mo
I'm guessing sweepers got their feets runned over?
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5mo
and broke two ribs. My wife slipped and caught her self and got a hairline fracture in her wrist and did significant damage to her shoulder.
Good times.
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5mo
your feet will come out from under you so fast you will never know what happend. If you bend your knees a little bit you might still slip but then it's one of those slow motion forward - note the "forward" - falls that's more embarassing than painful. Yeah, no joke we had guys do that and were out of action for a fair amount of time. Forget if one guy broke something or not.
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** Edited by EDGEMAN at 2/10/2026, 3:13:29 PM
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5mo
lifting a stone. She was pushing the stone and just hit the sheet....
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5mo
after the game.
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Except it's massed prayer around home plate before and after and holy war between prayers.
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