Answer: Jack
The jack is normally white or yellow.
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Answer: Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake is said to have been in the middle of a game of bowls in Plymouth Hoe on July 15th 1588 when he was informed that the Spanish Armada was approaching. In response he declared "We still have time to finish the game and thrash the Spaniards too". The legitamacy of this story is still debated although there is no doubt that he did go on and defeat the Spanish.
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Answer: Sir Francis Drake
He was reputed to have finished his game of bowls before tackling the Spanish Armada who were sailing towards the English Channel.
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Answer: 4
There is a also a two wood singles game which is played less frequently.
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Answer: Bias
The bias side of the bowl is indicated by a small circle. As the bowl slows down the bowl move increasingly that way. Bowls vary in the amount of bias they have and the conditions of the bowls green will also have a massive effect on the the line that needs to be taken to get to the jack.
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Answer: 7
Size 7 has a diameter of 5-1/8th of an inch. Size 0000, made legal for competition use in 2018, is approximately 4 inches in diameter.
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Answer: The smaller circle in the inside of the bowl which helps it follow the correct path
When playing bowls, the bias refers to the smaller circle in the inside of the bowl. If the wrong bias is said to have been played, this means that the small circle has been on the outside rather than the inside.
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Answer: Alex Marshall
Although he as been hugely successful at the World Championships, he has been unable to win any of the other indoor bowls ranking events.
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Answer: Head
As each bowl is delivered the head is built up. Understanding the best shot to play and what your opponent is likely to do is called reading the head.
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Answer: The bowl has been bowled with too much width
If a bowl is played with too much width (I.E. too much grass), it has a tendency to hang out and not come back.
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Answer: David Bryant
Bryant dominated the Game of Bowls from the 1960s through to 1980s.
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Answer: It is removed from play unless it has touched the Jack.
A bowl that hits the jack when it has been delivered it is marked with chalk to indicate that it is a toucher. A toucher is the only bowl that remains in play if it goes into the ditch.
Ditches are not very deep and are usually filled with stones, cork or rubber.
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Answer: The bowl was played with too much weight
A heavy bowl refers to the weight in which it (the bowl) was played. A heavy bowl can also be knowning as 'firing'.
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Answer: Ian Bond
He is the Quizmasters brother.
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Answer: Bowling to the jack with precise weight.
The draw shot is most important in the game of bowls and is the most common shot played. Playing with a lot of power is known as a firing shot or a drive, while playing to hit another bowl but stay in it's place is an example of a yard on shot. A bowl a long way short of the jack is called a blocker.
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Answer: 2
In a game of triples, 3 bowls are played with. In a double match, four bowls are played with, and in singles four bowls are also played with.
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Answer: New Zealand
Safuan Said was the singles champion in 2008.
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Answer: To see which bowl is closest to the jack
Most callipers look a lot like a compass and are used when two bowls are very near to the jack to determine which is closest.
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Answer: The end is dead and no points are given to any team
If the jack is knocked into the ditch (at the back of the rink, not at the side), then the game can still be played. If the bowl that hit the jack also lands in the ditch, it is left there and is still "live", and can be counted if near to the jack at the end of the end.
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Answer: Potters Leisure Resort
Potters Leisure Resort is in Norfolk (Hopton-on Sea). Alex Marshall of Scotland won the singles championship.
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Answer: Blackball
Blackball is a surprisingly good comedy set in Torquay, England about Cliff Starkey who becomes known as "the bad boy of bowls". Cliff has to team up with his arch rival and enemy Ray Speight (who also happens to be his girlfriends father) to beat Australia in the bowls version of the ashes.
The idea for the movie came from real life bowler Griff Sanders from Torquay who was banned for 10 years in 1998 for inappropriate dress, swearing, and obscene language towards an official. This ban was overturned on appeal a year later.
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Answer: Calipers
If the two bowls are very close to the jack and it can not be decided using nothing but your eye, then calipers are used.
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Answer: 9
Each player uses 3 bowls in triples, 4 in pairs, 4 in singles, and 2 in fours.
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Answer: New York
Bowling Green Park is located at the end of Broadway on the south side of Manhattan. It was originally the city's meat market before being turned into a bowling green in 1733 for some British colonists who leased the land at a price of one peppercorn per year.
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