Skittles!

[fireflybob]

What term is used in skittles to describe the knocking down of all the pins, with a ball left to throw? (1,5)

What name is given to the four-year period between Olympics? (8)

Thanks for any help

[Quizmonkey]

A spare ?! (indef article in crossword answers??!)

Olympiad

[WTW]

I think the skittles answer is "a strike", if you mean that all the pins were knocked down with one ball, and the second ball wasn't needed.

[shammydodger]

Hmm, not sure about the skittles answer. In ten-pin bowling you get to bowl 2 balls at each set of pins. If you knock them all down with the first ball, it's a strike. If you need the second ball to finish them off, and do so, it's a spare. Whether or not this terminology applies equally to skittles, I don't know.

[satpam]

I play skittles in the summer league and we call it a spare

[shammydodger]

Satpam

Thanx. So the terminology is indeed different. I wonder who did the stealing?