North Bay Granite Club History
Curling Basics
Curling rules and scoring
Curling positions
Lines and Places on the Ice
100

Anniversary the club celebrated this year 

What is the 75th anniversary 

100

Curling stones are traditionally made from this type of rock. 

What is granite? 

100

If your team has two stones closer than the other team's closest stone, you score this. 

What are two points? 

100

Amount of players on a curling team

What is 4?

100

The middle dot in the house is called this. 

What is the button? 

200

Year the club host the women's world championships (at memorial gardens)

What is 2018

200

This is the name of the target at the end of the sheet. 

What is the house? 

200

If no stones are in the house at the end of play, this happens. 

What is a blank end? 

200

These are the four positions in curling. 

What are lead, second, vice and skip

200

The line that runs down the middle of the ice. 

What is the center line. 

300

Year the North Bay granite club hosted the first summerspiel. 

what is 2012? 

300

The team who delivers the last stone in an end has this advantage? 

What is the hammer? 

300

This is the line that players must release the rock before. 

What is the hog line? 

300

The player who decides where the stones to go is this person. 

What is the skip

300

Stones must cross this line to be considered in play. 

The hog line. 

400

Year the North Bay granite club opened. 

What is 1950. 

400

This term describes a round of play in curling. 

What is an end? 

400

If a stone is touched while moving, it is called this. 

What is a burned stone? 

400

When the skip is throwing their stones, this person holds the broom for them. 

What is the vice? 

400

This is what players use to push off of when throwing stones. 

What is the hack? 

500

The major event the North Bay Granite Club is hosting this Jnauary. 

Northern Ontario Mens and Womens provincial championships. 

500

The long ice surface where curling is played is known as this. 

What is the sheet? 

500

Points are scored at the end of each of these. 

What is an end? 

500

A team at an event has five players, not four. The fifth person is referred to as this. 

What is the alternate player? 

500

This is the area in front of the house where guards sit. 

What is the free guard zone?