Just 1. Each rock is worth 1 point if it's closer to the center of the house (the painted "target" area) than the other team's closest rock. The different colored rings don't have different points values, they're just there to visually aid in judging how far rocks are from the center.

The different rings actually do not have different points values. The rings as a whole are called the "house." Any rock that is touching or inside the house is eligible to score. When all the rocks have been thrown down the ice, whichever team has the rock closest to the center of the house (the tee) scores. The number of points they get depends on how many rocks they have that are closer than the opponent's closest (each rock counts for one point, no matter which ring it's in). So really, the rings are just there as a visual aid to help judge which rocks are closer and farther from the center.

The only curling is on Canadian TV is during the Olympics. The Canadian TV network "CBC" airs a few Canadian events each the winter. If you live near the Canadian border, you might get CBC. If not, you might be able to watch online, but I'm not sure.

When water droplets form they make bumps on the ice. This is pebbled ice. It reduces the amount of friction between the ice and the stone because the stone isn't making as much contact with the surface of the sheet (playing field.)

The Heat makes your hair contract, basically your hair shrinks in the heat in areas pulling the rest of your hair causing it to curl, same thing happens with plastic. People also want it to curl their hair, that's why they invented it.

The transferrence of momentum from one stone to the other is a good example.

This is called "blanking the end." In curling, whichever team scores gives the "hammer" (the advantage of having the last shot) to the other team for the next end. If no one scores ("blank end"), the team that has the hammer keeps it for the next end. If the team with the hammer has a choice of whether to score 1 point and give up the hammer, or blank the end and keep the hammer, they will usually purposely blank the end, carry the hammer to the next end, and to try to score more than one point in the next end.

A shot that comes to rest in the house is called a draw.

Some other terms:

A draw the ends up hidden by a "guard" (a rock in front of the house) is called "buried."

A draw that ends up sitting right in front of another rock, just touching it, is called "frozen."

The circle actually don't have different points values. In curling, each stone can score 1 point if it is closer than the closest stone of the other team (in other words, if yellow team has 8 rocks far away from the center, but red team has just one rock right in the center, red will score 1 point) Only the team with the closest rock to the center scores points in that "end" (which is like one round). The painted rings area as a whole is called the "house," and like I said, all that matters is if your rocks are closer to the center (called the "tee") than the other team's. As long as a rock is touching at least part of the house, it is eligible to score.

When curling was invented in Scotland nearly 500 years ago, they would slide "river stones" (large stones worn smooth by water erosion) down lanes of ice. Over time, as the game evolved, the stones turned into the precise granite products with the plastic handles we see today.

Today, curling stones come from one of two manufacturers. Kays of Scotland creates curling stones using granite mined from Ailsa Craig, a small island off the west coast of Scotland. Meanwhile, the Canadian Curling Stone Co. creates stones using granite mined from Trefor quarry in Wales.

Friction can slow down a rock and the speed of the rock depends on the force you exert.

This is called "blanking the end." In curling, whichever team scores gives the "hammer" (the advantage of having the last shot) to the other team for the next end. If no one scores ("blank end"), the team that has the hammer keeps it for the next end. If the team with the hammer has a choice of whether to score 1 point and give up the hammer, or blank the end and keep the hammer, they will usually purposely blank the end, carry the hammer to the next end, and to try to score more than one point in the next end.

Curling is a game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target max. =80

"Shot rock" refers to whichever rock is currently the closest to the center of the house. When you hear curlers ask each other "do we have shot rock?" or "are we shot?" they are asking which team is currently in scoring position.

No difference - just different names for the same thing. It's not uncommon to hear people switch between referring to them as either stones or rocks, since both terms are widely-used and interchangeable.

"Rock" is probably the more popular term in the U.S., while "stone" is probably more popular in Canada.

"Broom" and "brush" are also interchangeable. "Brush" is not used much in the U.S., more so in Canada. Neither term is really too fitting anymore, though, since most curling brooms are now made with a rough synthetic fabric covering a foam pad, rather than the more traditional horse hair or straw bristles.

The USA team is auctioning off one of theirs, signed by all members of both men's and women's teams.

The force of friction is a contact force. An example of a force at a distance would be gravity.

It is a display of the state of sensors in the ice and stone. If the stone has not been released by the time it reaches the hog line, the light will turn red and the stone must be removed from play.

In 1998 at the Nagano, Japan Olympic games.

In each curling end there are eight curling stones for each team--16 total.

I personally believe that the curling or conical wand creates better curls, however, the wand doesn't have a clasp so you have to twist the hair around the wand and hold the hair in place.

I'm not sure what you mean. I imagine that if you were caught cheating, or doing drugs, or anything like that, your team would be disqualified just like any Olympic sport.

A curling match is played between two teams of four players each.

Yes. The moment a rock touches the barriers on either side of the ice sheet, the rock is ruled out of bounds and dead, and is stopped by the sweepers so that any ricochet does not affect rocks in play.