Wednesday 11th January 2023
Difficulty: Easy
Lawn bowls (Quiz #54)
Two bowls and a jack. Photo: Mattinbgn
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Lawn bowls, or just "bowls", is a game in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack".
1. Where is the "home" of lawn bowls, the World Bowls Centre?
2. A bowling green is divided into separate "lanes" so several games can be played at once. What are the "lanes" actually called?
3. My friend is 60, pretty fit, runs a lot and has a perfectly good bicycle. Nevertheless he says he has to drive the short distance to the club because his bowls are too heavy for him to carry on his bike. How much does a set of four size 5 bowls (without a bag) weigh (roughly)?
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